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Howling at the Abyss . . . How the Democrats Moved So Far and So Fast to the Right (G&R 256)

Howling at the Abyss . . . How the Democrats Moved So Far and So Fast to the Right (G&R 256)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


Howling at the Abyss . . . How the Democrats Moved So Far and So Fast to the Right (G&R 256)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

ratings:
Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Nov 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In Green & Red's latest "Scrappy Sunday," we talk about how American moved so far to the right so fast . . . . starting with the 1960s, when Nixon ran a hard-hitting campaign against liberalism, through Carter, who embraced neo-liberalism and abandoned the core of Democratic
ideology, through the total buy-in of corporatist policies with Clinton and Obama, the Democratic Party has moved steadily to the right, and in most cases when their position on key issues like abortion rights and gun violence, had majority support.

At the end of the day, we can attack the GOP all we want--and there are plenty of bigoted, racist, and sociopathic Republicans to attack, but the failure to offer any alternative or resistance to the GOP and adoption of corporate and conservative ideas is what's sent us off the
rails and into the abyss.

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"Bad Moon Rising" by CCR

Links//
+G&R: Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then…
(https://bit.ly/3ROC3NR)
+G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck
(https://bit.ly/3FLpf3p)

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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced
by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by
Moody. Editing by Scott.
Released:
Nov 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.