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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

#1072 A progressive vision for our economic future (Encore)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Air Date: 1/17/2017

Today we take a look at the Democrats failure to present viable economic solutions and offer a new vision for where we should go from here.

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Democrats failed to offer a better solution - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 11-26-16

Ch. 3: Song 1: Once There Was a Hushpuppy - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin

Ch. 4: Act 2: How progressives need to frame their economic message - @theLFshow w: @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 12-29-14

Ch. 5: Song 2: Unified - Unified Highway

Ch. 6: Act 3: AI Will Eliminate 6% of Jobs in Next 5 Years - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 09-18-16

Ch. 7: Song 3: Automation - Allan Sherman

Ch. 8: Act 4: Paul Street on the folly of throwing away identity politics - @BlkAgendaReport - Air Date 1-16-17

Ch. 9: Song 4: Working Class Hero - Green Day

Ch. 10: Act 5: Not Trickle Down, But Bottom Up | Anthony Flaccavento - @theLFshow w: @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 12-15-16

Ch. 11: Song 5: Trickle Down - Hayseed Dixie

Ch. 12: Act 6: What is Economic Democracy? - The Next System Project - Air Date: 3-1-16

Ch. 13: Song 6: Le monde de contre jour - David Ari Leon

Ch. 14: Act 7: The UK Labor party taking the lead on worker coops - Economic Update w: @profwolff - Air Date 5-9-16

Ch. 15: Song 7: Capitalism Is Tearing Us Apart - Sole

Ch. 16: Act 8: Social Welfare Does Not Kill Business, with President of Iceland Ólafur Grímsson - Big Think - Air Date 11-13-14

Ch. 17: Song 8: Success - Iggy Pop

Ch. 18: Act 9: How can we develop the next system? - Economic Update w: @profwolff - Air Date 12-30-16

Ch. 19: Song 9: Capitalism - Yellow Umbrella

Ch. 20: Act 10: Join or Start a Local Democracy @ Work Action Group via @Democracyatwrk - Best of the Left Activism

Transcript

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0:00.0

do people resonate with new economy, do people resonate better with people's economy?

0:05.8

Economic democracy, should we be treating these actions separately, should we be aligning

0:11.5

under a movement?

0:16.8

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0:28.6

Now welcome to the award winning bestofaloft podcast with clips today from the Ralph Nader

0:32.7

Radio Hour, the Laura Flonders show, the David Pakman show, the Black Agenda Report, the

0:37.7

next system project, economic update with Professor Richard Wolff and Big Thank.

0:45.7

We've been talking with Professor and Eridus's Sociology, Arleigh Russell, Hokeshield author

0:50.8

of the very, very in-depth insight into the area of rural and industrial America in Lake

0:59.6

Charles, Louisiana.

1:01.1

She calls the book Strangers in their own land because that's how they feel.

1:05.5

They feel abandoned.

1:07.7

Just to generalize a bit and bring it up to date, Professor Hokeshield, would you say

1:12.8

that the Trump victory was very much made possible.

1:17.5

He lost a popular vote, by the way, just won the electoral college.

1:21.6

The Trump victory was a victory driven by white America, rooted in three dimensions, race,

1:30.6

culture and economics.

1:32.4

Yes, but you know, I think the main point I draw away from this is that the Democratic

1:40.7

party didn't have much to offer people like that.

1:45.0

I think they didn't see themselves reflected in the conversation.

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