#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Air Date 11/14/2023
The Supreme Court turned the table on average, working people back in the 70s when they empowered wealthy individuals and corporations to have an outsized role in our politics. Now we're trapped in the reality that shift in power created and are dreaming of a better way to manage our economic and political systems for the benefit of all people.
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode I'm going to be telling you about a show I think you should check out. |
| 0:07.0 | It's the future hindsight podcast. So take a moment to hear what I have to say about them in the middle of the show and listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast, |
| 0:19.9 | in which we shall take a look at how the Supreme Court turned the tables on average working people |
| 0:24.6 | back in the 70s when they empowered wealthy individuals and corporations to have an outsized |
| 0:29.6 | role in our politics. |
| 0:31.4 | And now we are trapped in the reality of that shift in power created, |
| 0:34.6 | but are dreaming of a better way to manage our economic and political systems for the benefit of all people. |
| 0:40.8 | Sources today include the Tom Hartman program, Jim High Towers radio |
| 0:45.2 | lowdown, the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Economic Update with Professor Richard |
| 0:49.8 | Wolf, Off Kilter with Rebecca Vallis, and the Zero Hour with R.J. Esqow, with additional |
| 0:56.3 | Members Only Clips from citations needed and off-kilter. Walter. |
| 1:05.0 | This all started in 1976. |
| 1:08.0 | When James Buckley, the William F buckly's older brother he was the |
| 1:14.4 | i believe he's older |
| 1:15.6 | uh... he was the senator from new york the republican senator from new york |
| 1:20.0 | and he wanted to be able to use he's a multi multi-millionary want to be able to use his own money in his |
| 1:24.3 | campaign to basically wipe out his opponent |
| 1:28.5 | and federal election law at the time in nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy six said no you can't do that there are limits on how much |
| 1:36.0 | money anybody can spend including the candidate himself so he took this to the |
| 1:40.8 | Supreme Court the Supreme Court said hey it's your, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. |
| 1:45.8 | And the rationale that they used was that without billionaires being able to put money into politics. |
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