The point is that what the Biden administration needs to do is something huge or propose is

something huge that will produce that political explosion that will then provoke that conversation,

that national discussion about the role of the court, about the power of the court.

Do we want to have nine unelected people basically ruling our country as if they are kings and

queens?

Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host, Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

Today's pod is a candid conversation with Tom Hartman. Tom has the number one progressive

talk show in America with over seven million weekly listeners. It's a New York Times best-selling

author of 25 books in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, politics and economics. He's a former

psychotherapist, businessman and progressive political commentator who was co-written and

starred in four documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio on environmentalism. I'm having Tom

on the show today not because his resume is so stellar but because his brain is. His

sub-stack, the Hartman Report, is one of the smartest sources of information out there.

I learned so much from him and I'm having him on today so you can too. This episode drops

on Election Day in America. The 2022 midterms are arguably the most important election in

the history of our Republic because not only are the candidates on the ballot, democracy

itself is on the line. Whether or not your vote will continue to count is decided today.

Whether women will have human rights and bodily autonomy protected by our leaders or whether

those who can become pregnant are controlled by the state no longer able to make decisions

for their own lives or their own welfare. This is the election that decides if social

security and Medicare are protected or if they're vulnerable and if the planet itself has

a fighting chance. And yet there are people out there today who believe this election is

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