Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in which we will look at an election year

where more than ever before democracy itself is on the ballot, and yet there is less democracy

actually happening in the lead up to the election than any time in recent memory,

and with two profoundly disliked candidates running,

the supporters of democratic ideals have a hard uphill push ahead of them.

Sources today include the majority Report, Ring of Fire, the Humanist Report,

MS NBC, the NPR Politics Podcast, the Professional Left Podcast, and Olorinati, with additional members-only clips from Future Hindsight

and the NPR Politics Podcast. The Republicans are sort of one by one losing their majority in the House with

resignations and whatnot.

They don't seem, also it seems that Johnson now is like the whole strategy is going to be,

we're not going to pass any immigration bill whatsoever, even as much as the Democrats are sort of like

compromising on it. Where does this leave it? I mean the Democrats sort of like

this is sort of almost like it reminds me of of when

Obama tried to you know cut Social Security in the Freedom Caucus back in 2010

wouldn't say yes and so the Democrats couldn't come out and

campaign they're gonna cut so security because it was the Democrats who were willing

to offer it and in yet so this is, what's going to happen when the Republicans just use immigration as a bludgeon on Biden, but Biden doesn't want to come out and actually defend immigrants in any way.

Oh, yes, that's, so there's a few issues like this. This is the big one though. I would say energy policy is the same where the Biden

administration's slowly moving towards a policy that might make, that eliminate some of the political problems they see, except

it doesn't because Republicans don't give them credit and Democrats don't like it.

This is one of them. The Republican approach this is

the Republican approach you have it I think it's using day but I can say a common line you heard

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