#1143 Strategies for a winning coalition (Progressive Movement)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 November 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 11/03/2017
Today we look at the battle at the heart of the rift in the progressive movement over strategies on the proper direction to go from here. As is so often the case, the answer is not one or the other but both
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 3: Song 1: Vibrant Canopy - Art Of Escapism
Ch. 4: Act 2: Taking race and gender as seriously as class - Jacobin Radio (@jacobinmag) - Air Date 8-28-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Rotisserie Graveyard - Doctor Turtle
Ch. 6: Act 3: Joan Williams on understanding the divide in how different groups are framed - Cape Up - Air Date 10-24-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Vibrant Canopy - Origami
Ch. 9: Song 4: Celestial Navigation - Aeronaut
Voicemails
Ch. 11: Guns, protection and the age of reason - David from Columbus, OH
Ch. 12: Calling a business a job-creator is like calling a car an exhaust-creator - Chris from Fairfax
Ch. 13: To boycott or not to boycott - Zach from Virginia Beach
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 14: Final comments on what the Clinton/DNC financial ties revelations may mean for how the party works to regain it’s legitimacy
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions and Free Music Archive)
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes when people talk about their goal as being organizing the working class, |
| 0:05.3 | that's actually not what they're doing. Because if it were really their goal, then they would, |
| 0:11.2 | of course, want to speak in the most inclusive ways possible and address the fact that the |
| 0:20.6 | women are in the working class and the working class in the United States has a large percentage of |
| 0:25.9 | people of color. This program is made possible by members and donors to the show. To support the |
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| 0:37.8 | versions of every episode, plus members on the bonus content, find us on Patreon or visit the |
| 0:43.2 | Contribute tab at bestofleft.com. Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with |
| 0:48.2 | Cubs today from Democracy Now, Jacobin Radio, Cape Up with Jonathan Cape Art, politically reactive, |
| 0:54.6 | and the zero hour. We turn now to the future of the Democratic Party. Last week in Virginia, |
| 1:04.0 | party leaders unveiled their new slogan, a Better Deal, and rolled out an agenda to win back the |
| 1:10.2 | working class voters they lost to President Donald Trump in November. This is Senate Minority Leader |
| 1:16.3 | Chuck Schumer. When you lose elections as we did in 2014 and 2016, you don't flinch, |
| 1:23.8 | you don't blink, you look in the mirror and ask, what did we do wrong? The number one thing we did |
| 1:31.4 | wrong is not present a strong, bold, economic agenda to working Americans so that their hope for |
| 1:39.6 | the future might return again. Democrats have too often hesitated from directly and unflinchingly |
| 1:48.0 | taking on the misguided policies that got us here. So much so that too many Americans don't know what |
| 1:55.2 | we stand for. Not after today, President Trump campaigned on a populist platform talking to working |
| 2:04.4 | people. That's why he won. But as soon as he got into office, he abandoned them, making alliance with |
| 2:12.1 | the powerful special interests, Koch brother dominated hard right wing of the Republican Party, |
| 2:18.6 | which appeals to the very wealthy, not the working people, leaving a vacuum on economic issues. |
| 2:26.8 | We Democrats are going to fill that vacuum. Democrats will show the country we are the party on |
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