Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in which we in a cultish era of in-group outgroup politics and media seek to find messaging for progressive partisans to achieve electoral success.

Sources on our front page today include The Gray Area, the PBS News Hour,

I'm on Poering Company,

Deep State Radio, and Future Hindsight.

Then in the additional sections half of the show,

we'll dive deeper into identity,

political rhetoric, messaging, and those pesky independence.

I'm not sure that I've ever been able to go deep on it. I'm very interested in and

I've always been very interested in culture which I suppose is worth defining

culture is the way that we think about the world and the way that we

influence each other's thoughts about the world.

And that can be through entertainment,

it can be through religion,

it can be through fashion and clothes,

but it's the memes and ideas and ideologies that not only influence our own sense of reality,

but other people's sense of reality.

And I've always been interested in how people's sense of reality comes to be.

So you can start with the late 19th century

when the concept of a national reality

was first possible, at least in America.

You had technologies like the telephone and the

telegraph that allowed newspapers to share information and report on

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