#1332 Old Wounds, New Wounds (Democratic Primary)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Air Date 1/29/2020
Today we take a look at the flurry of controversy around the Democratic Primary race, once again exposing multiple rifts within the party along both ideological and gender lines.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Debates and the Candidates Position on War - Democracy Now - Air Date 1-15-20
The Democratic Debates got a lot whiter, and they share jabs about how much they support war.
Ch. 2: The Big White Wave - In The Thick - Air Date 1-14-20
Discussing the impact of voters of color on the primaries and how money in politics reinforces the dominance of white politicians
Ch. 3: Warren, Sanders and the Question of Sexism - On the Media - Air Date 1-17-20
Rebecca Traister is a writer at The Cut where she wrote an article responding to the incident called “The Third Rail of Calling ‘Sexism’.” Here, she speaks with Brooke about the trickiness of talking about sexism without falling victim to it.
Ch. 4: Can a Woman be President? - Call Your Girlfriend - Air Date 1-24-20
A nuanced discussion of how to talk about sexism within Democratic circles while understanding some of the contextual forces at play.
Ch. 5: Hillary Clinton Is Not Going Away - The Young Turks - Air Date 1-21-20
Ana and Cenk discuss Hillary Clinton's documentary where she drags Bernie and Progressives.
Michael Moore reviews the facts about Bernie Sanders' support of Hilary Clinton as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in 2016
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Ch. 7: We're the bully in the playground - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 8: Two-faced politicians - Naomi from Canada
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on how tomorrow’s leaders are made
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | learn about the flurry of controversy around the Democratic primary race, which has once |
| 0:11.9 | again exposed multiple rifts within the party along both ideological and gender lines. |
| 0:18.5 | Clipsidae come from democracy now, in the thick, on the media, call your girlfriend, |
| 0:24.9 | the young Turks, and rumble with Michael Moore. |
| 0:28.3 | In the final debate before the Iowa caucuses, six Democratic candidates took to the stage |
| 0:39.3 | Tuesday night in Des Moines. |
| 0:41.4 | For the first time, this election cycle, every candidate on the stage was white. |
| 0:46.5 | Former vice president Joe Biden, senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy |
| 0:51.2 | Klobuchar, former South Bend Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg and billionaire investor Tom Steyer. |
| 0:58.1 | On Monday, New Jersey's Senator Cory Booker announced he's dropping out of the presidential |
| 1:02.8 | race, leaving only one black candidate former Massachusetts governor, the Vow Patrick. |
| 1:10.0 | But the Vow Patrick did not make the cut for this latest debate. |
| 1:13.6 | Tuesday's debate marked the first time Senators Sanders and Warren openly sparred at the end |
| 1:19.4 | of the night, Warren refused to shake the hand of her longtime friend and colleague Sanders. |
| 1:25.2 | In addition to impeachment, much of the debate focused on foreign policy. |
| 1:30.4 | Senator Sanders warned President Trump about going to war with Iran. |
| 1:35.9 | What we have to face is a nation, is that the two great foreign policy disasters of our |
| 1:42.6 | lifetimes with Warren Vietnam and the war in Iraq. |
| 1:47.1 | Both of those wars were based on lies. |
| 1:53.4 | And right now what I fear very much is we have a president who is lying again and could |
| 1:59.7 | drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in Iraq. |
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