#1703 The Broligarchy and the Rise of Technofeudalism
Air Date: 4-14-2025
Everything, it turns out, is a double-edged sword. Democracy and freedom are great, but they also contain the keys to their own destruction. Love is pretty good, but it turns out that only love can break your heart. And technology, which has freed people from countless hours of menial labor, also has the power to subsume our economy, our politics, and much of our everyday lives. It may even be said to have supplanted capitalism itself.
Read more#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has led to some strange, fascist bedfellows (Throwback)
Air Date: 4-8-2025
Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of democratic nations and individuals who support human rights, leaving the country with some of the most far-right, fascist, white-supremacist, anti-Semitic people in the world as their only remaining allies.
Read more#1702 Destroying Education, Boosting Christian Nationalism: Rewriting the Past and Hamstringing the Future
Air Date: 4-4-2025
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. And with Trump in place, the Christian Nationalists are looking to rewrite history to their liking in order to create the dystopian future they desire.
Read more#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need
Air Date: 4-2-2025
Love them or loathe them, the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on Trumpism but we need a whole lot of new energy and new commitments to the fight to turn them into an opposition worthy of the moment we face.
Read more#1700 Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists
Air Date: 3-29-2025
You might not be trans yourself but that's just like how coal miners aren't canaries because when they saw that the canaries were under threat, they knew the danger was all around them. Fascists always start with those who are the easiest to dehumanize, but they never stop there.
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