#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date 12/15/2020
Today we take a look at the current state of hyper-partisanship and its origins. The system seems broken because it is broken and it was never designed to work this way in the first place. And what about that bygone era of bipartisanship? It's likely that was a fluke and the result of one-party dominance in the New Deal era, it is not the norm throughout history.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Changes in American Political Parties Part 1 - Professor Buzzkill History Podcast - Air Date 7-2-20
We explain why the Democratic and Republican political parties have the same names, but totally different attitudes and policies over the decades.
Ch. 2: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational Part 1 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 12-3-20
This is a conversation about that question, about how the system we have incentivizes a politics of confrontation we don’t seem to want and makes steady, stable governance a thing of the past. Princeton political scientist Frances Lee.
Ch. 3: Trump, Evangelicals, Fascism, Torture, Propaganda Q + A Part 1 - FrameLab Podcast - Air Date 3-17-18
Dr. Lakoff and Gil Duran answer listener questions. Topics include: Trump Evangelicals; Conservatism's #1 Rule; Fascism; Capitalism vs. Socialism; the American Idea; Biconceptualism; How the Government Frames Issues Like Torture, and more.
Ch. 4: Changes in American Political Parties Part 2 - Professor Buzzkill History Podcast - Air Date 7-2-20
We explain why the Democratic and Republican political parties have the same names, but totally different attitudes and policies over the decades.
Ch. 5: Trump, Evangelicals, Fascism, Torture, Propaganda Q + A Part 2 - FrameLab Podcast - Air Date 3-17-18
Dr. Lakoff and Gil Duran answer listener questions. Topics include: Trump Evangelicals; Conservatism's #1 Rule; Fascism; Capitalism vs. Socialism; the American Idea; Biconceptualism; How the Government Frames Issues Like Torture, and more.
Ch. 6: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational Part 2 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 12-3-20
This is a conversation about that question, about how the system we have incentivizes a politics of confrontation we don’t seem to want and makes steady, stable governance a thing of the past. Princeton political scientist Frances Lee.
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Ch. 9: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational Part 3 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 12-3-20
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Ch. 10: Sharing in misery - Zeke from Steamboat Springs, CO
Ch. 11: Another Dave from Olympia shares the wealth - Eric from Portland
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on where your money to the show goes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the best of the left podcast. I am coming to you from Christmas Eve. As I prepare to put this whole |
| 0:05.9 | Operation to bed for the year. I have another excellent rerun for you. The second of three that you'll be visited by |
| 0:13.6 | Before we come back next year |
| 0:15.9 | First though a quick story a few days before Christmas this year Amanda and I attended a play about the famed |
| 0:22.8 | 1914 Christmas truce on the front lines during World War One the opposing sides stopped fighting |
| 0:29.6 | Met in No Man's Land played soccer sang carols and held a joint ceremony to bury their respective dead |
| 0:38.7 | However before the play started |
| 0:41.5 | the |
| 0:42.7 | You know approaching retirement age couple sitting ahead of me |
| 0:48.5 | Was discussing fairly loudly the scourge of critical race theory that was taking over the military and how it was |
| 0:55.8 | Obviously just another cover for creeping Marxism the whole kitten caboodle |
| 1:02.4 | Which I got a real kick out of hearing this person refer to both Marxism and kitten caboodle in the same sentence |
| 1:10.8 | But having heard them talk about this I you know it took me out of the |
| 1:15.1 | You know Christmas spirit a little bit |
| 1:17.1 | But then got me thinking about the nature of the show that we were about to watch |
| 1:21.0 | And I couldn't help but think sort of distractedly through the entire play |
| 1:27.5 | Should I offer for these people in the spirit of the message we're watching |
| 1:33.8 | To give them the opportunity to meet a real-life socialist and supporter of critical race theory |
| 1:40.6 | So that we might share some libations and cheer and conversation during this holiday season |
| 1:47.9 | In the wake of having watched a show about the Nazis and the French and the British |
| 1:54.0 | Getting together to play soccer in the middle of no man's land during a war |
| 2:00.0 | I thought maybe they would go for it. Maybe I could uh, you know change some minds a little bit |
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