#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America
Air Date: 6–11-2022
Today we take a look at the reasons why Democrats lost rural America and why it's important to make gains outside urban centers through working-class coalitions and a focus on the policy failures of unchecked Republicanism.
Read more#1494 Progressives and the Primaries
Air Date: 6–8-2022
Today we take a look at progressive victories in primary elections around the country and explain why moderates are not much more than allies of conservatism.
Read more#1485 The Politics We Have, The Politics We Need (Socializing the Oil Industry)
Air Date: 4–23-2022
Today we take a look at how we got to the form of toothless liberalism we are living with today and begin to reimagine what a more muscular state apparatus could do in the face of the climate crisis.
Read more#1464 Fighting to Preserve Democracy With Only Democrats to Turn To
Air Date: 1–5-2022
Today we take a look at a few of the recent failures and challenges facing the Democratic Party in the face of an oncoming wave of anti-democratic forces bent on establishing an entrenched, minority-rule government through aggressive gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Read more#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors (Repost)
Air Date: 12–15-2020
Today we take a look at the current state of hyper-partisanship and its origins. The system seems broken because it is broken and it was never designed to work this way in the first place. And what about that bygone era of bipartisanship? It's likely that was a fluke and the result of one-party dominance in the New Deal era, it is not the norm throughout history.
Read more#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times
Air Date: 12–15-2021
Today we take a look at the cracks and fissures appearing ever more quickly in the neoliberal order that was already widely criticized before the pandemic stripped it bare, exposing all of the inherent inequality and inhumanity baked right into the system.
Read more#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema)
Air Date: 6–18-2021
Today we take a look at the politics of obstruction in service to big donors' interests while sacrificing the ability to run a functioning democracy in the process.
Read more#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors
Air Date: 12–15-2020
Today we take a look at the current state of hyper-partisanship and its origins. The system seems broken because it is broken and it was never designed to work this way in the first place. And what about that bygone era of bipartisanship? It's likely that was a fluke and the result of one-party dominance in the New Deal era, it is not the norm throughout history.
Read more#1382 Progressive Policies Are Good Politics
Air Date: 11–20-2020
Today we take a look at the results of the elections beyond the presidency and find that progressive policies did well which should be a lesson to Democrats currently looking to find their bearings and choose a direction.
Read more#1341 Bernie and the Billionaires (Democratic Primary Election)
Air Date: 3–3-2020
Today we take a look at the election through the lens of billionaire politics, from the candidates in both parties to the heads of media organizations to the way a pro-billionaire mentality trickles down to the establishment class on the media and Democratic Party. And what has all of this money been able to buy in terms of opposition research and narrative building against Bernie Sanders? Red-baiting at its most naked and pathetic.
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