#1382 Progressive Policies Are Good Politics
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Finding hope in America’s progressive core - Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown - Air Date 11-12-20
The hope that resides in these progressive policy positions is the prospect that a truly great American majority might yet be forged – not around some mega-politician – but around our people’s basic values of fairness and justice for all.
Ch. 2: Mike Davis: Biden's Big Mistake - Start Making Sense - Air Date 11-11-20
Mike Davis on the Trump voters: Latinos in south Texas and white workers in the rust belt—and Biden’s big mistake: allowing Trump to claim "the economy" as his issue, instead of connecting jobs to controlling the pandemic.
DANIEL NICHANIAN, Editor of 'The Appeal: Political Report' explains how last week's election delivered victories for advocates of criminal justice reform in local and county races for District Attorney and County Sheriff, as well as ballot initiatives.
Ch. 4: Check Your Blindspot (Sponsored by Ground News) - 11-20-20
America's favorite political game show that uses the Blindspot feature of Ground News to test contestants' political blindspots and media literacy.
Eddie Glaude, author and chair of Princeton University's Department of African American Studies. "It makes no sense that we would go back to the politics that produced Trump in the first place." We also speak to artist and antiracist activist Bree Newsome
Anu Joshi, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, talks about the NYIC's hopes for the Biden administration, and takes calls from immigrant listeners who are ready for the new administration.
Ch. 7: Biden Time: Banking - Planet Money - Air Date 11-13-20
Four things Joe Biden can do as president — even if the Democrats don't control Congress.
Ch. 8: Biden Won. Now He Needs to Save the Planet - The Mother Jones Podcast - Air Date 11-11-20
Jamilah King is joined by Mother Jones· climate and environment reporter Rebecca Leber to discuss what we can expect from an incoming Biden administration that has claimed climate action as central to its governing mandate.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on how Harmony Square can teach you about online manipulation
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Read, sign & share the People's Charter (Working Families Party)
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At the City Level, Progressives Flex New Power (City Lab)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and What’s Next for the Left (NY Times)
Progressive Criminal Justice Ballot Initiatives Won Big in the 2020 Election (Center for American Progress)
The $15 Minimum Wage Wasn’t the Only Progressive Ballot Measure That Passed in Conservative States (Mother Jones)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:06.8 | learn about the results of the election beyond the presidency and find that progressive |
| 0:11.8 | policies did quite well, which should be a lesson to Democrats currently, looking to |
| 0:17.0 | find their bearings and choose a direction forward. |
| 0:19.8 | Clips today are from Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown, Start Making Sense, The Bradcast, |
| 0:27.0 | an episode of Check Your Blind Spot, Democracy Now, The Brian Lairer Show, and The Mother |
| 0:33.0 | Jones Podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | Good grief, Crime Many Progressives. |
| 0:42.8 | How has America turned so right-wing that a flabby, narcissistic, wannabe dictator like |
| 0:48.2 | Trump was even in the running? |
| 0:50.6 | But wait, aside from a minority of racist xenophobic, misogynistic voters, plus a bunch |
| 0:56.1 | of uber-wealthy corporate profiteers, making a killing from his rich man's agenda, most |
| 1:01.5 | of Trump's rank-and-file voters are not right-wingers at all. |
| 1:05.2 | To see evidence of this, look at the multitude of overtly progressive ballot issues that |
| 1:10.2 | one majority support on election day, even in so-called Trump country. |
| 1:15.1 | 53% of Arizona voters said yes to attack surcharge on incomes above $250,000 a year, specifically, |
| 1:23.2 | to raise teacher pay and recruit more teachers. |
| 1:26.2 | A whopping 78% of Oregon voters approved a populist proposition to put strict controls on the corrupting |
| 1:33.0 | power of big-money corporate donations and elections. |
| 1:36.4 | 61% of Floridians voted to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, a working-class |
| 1:43.0 | advance vehemently opposed by corporate giants and right-wing groups. |
| 1:47.8 | 57% voted yes on a Colorado provision, requiring corporations to let employees earn paid time |
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