Bonus Edition #207 Hope springs eternal and tries to kill you
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Air Date 5/7/2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss the dangerous, pervasive epidemic of hope fueled by desperation spreading throughout the country that is leading people to self-destructive thoughts and actions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I have a man here with me. |
| 0:12.2 | And today we are talking about hope, but not the good kind of hope. |
| 0:17.2 | The kind of hope that leads you astray, the kind of hope that's like, I sure hope the |
| 0:22.2 | Iraqis greet us as liberators, or I sure hope I can vote for Donald Trump to stick |
| 0:30.0 | it to the establishment and nothing too terrible will happen. |
| 0:34.2 | So yeah, this is the kind of hope that is a stand-in for science or critical thinking. |
| 0:39.6 | Awesome. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, often. |
| 0:41.8 | And so it comes in all forms. |
| 0:45.8 | We have some historical references. |
| 0:47.8 | We've got a couple of clips for you, but we'll start where we are right now. |
| 0:54.0 | So there's an article in the Washington Post today or yesterday I believe talking about |
| 1:01.0 | how America is reopening despite all evidence that points to the fact that no one should |
| 1:07.9 | be reopening just yet. |
| 1:09.8 | That sounds hopeful though. |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, but it's so hopeful, right? |
| 1:12.4 | So I'm sure everyone's excited. |
| 1:14.7 | But here's the deal more than quote more than 40 states have announced plans to lift |
| 1:18.7 | restrictions, even though only a handful have met the minimum criteria for reopening as |
| 1:23.1 | outlined by the White House Coronavirus Task Force. |
| 1:26.0 | The consequences of this are all too predictable because the science around COVID-19 has not changed. |
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