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🗓️ 3 May 2007
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | Readings, this is Podcast No. 92 of Blast the Right. |
0:24.0 | I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com. |
0:27.2 | Today, I have some great news for you. |
0:34.1 | New polling data gives you and me some really heavy duty ammo to fight back against a particular |
0:40.0 | type of name calling by the right that some of us have endured for decades. |
0:44.8 | It all relates to wealth distribution in America, let's get right into it. |
0:50.2 | My sources are the Gallup polling organization CommonDreams.org and FairEconomy.org. |
0:58.0 | Back in the 60s and early 70s, if you were organizing against the Vietnam War, you got |
1:03.0 | used to being called a communist or a kami or a Marxist. |
1:07.2 | If the right winger was in a kinder mood, he or she would only call you a socialist. |
1:11.9 | Okay, we were in a cold war with the Soviet Union, so this name calling by the feeble-minded |
1:18.7 | was at least somewhat understandable. |
1:21.5 | Moving forward to the 1980s, if you were organizing against Ronald Reagan's policy of |
1:26.2 | aiding the contra-terrorists in Nicaragua, again, those lovely sober-cays, communist, |
1:32.5 | kami, Marxist, were once again lobbed at you, and again, the cold war was still in full |
1:38.3 | swing, so we understood where the name calling was coming from. |
1:43.3 | What amazed me was, when I started the rationalradical.com website in 2001, and continuing through with |
1:50.0 | my hosting of the Blasterite podcast starting in 2005, that same name calling continued, |
1:57.7 | long after the demise of the Soviet Union, and with both China and Vietnam, adopting |
2:02.7 | more and more capitalistic elements to their economies. |
2:07.2 | Just at a curiosity, I searched my negative email folder for these terms. |
2:12.6 | All dozen emails turned up. |
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