Ep 536 Elizabeth Warren Banishes Snakes From Twitter

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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We wish! We'll miss Elizabeth Warren A LOT. Why we're already 40 years into a "Political Revolution" (Surprise, it was Reagan's.) Driftglass reviews three conservative conferences held last week. We feel comforted by Thaddeus Stephens and Nancy Pelosi. More at proleftpod.com. Support the show

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on Netroots Radio or at our website, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:09.4	There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:18.3	This is the podcast for March 6th, 2020. It's not safe for work. Recorded live from the
0:24.8	Cornfield Resistance, where we're already in the 40th year of an anti-government revolution. It's the
0:30.0	professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:42.0	Hey, Dr. Glass.
0:43.0	Hey, Blue Gal. Yeah, you mentioned that this week to me, and it kind of stunned me that the Steve Bannon
0:49.4	Ronald Reagan Revolution is something we've been living through for 40 years.
0:54.0	And I went, oh, yeah, you're right.
0:56.2	Oh, that's right.
0:56.8	There was someone who stood on a platform and waved his fist and said, government is the problem.
1:03.1	The system must be destroyed.
1:04.4	Everything is, everything is the fault of the system.
1:09.2	And it must be overthrown.
1:12.7	And that person was Ronald Wilson Reagan.
1:15.0	And he succeeded.
1:23.1	He succeeded because he got a whole, because his solution to the problem of government was to have markets run everything.
1:25.3	Wealthy people and everything, corporations on everything. And apparently there's an awful lot of money to be had if you go tell wealthy people that you would like to give them more power.
1:32.3	We just wrote a big check to Big Pharma for the immunizations and the tests.
1:36.6	It's like, no, we're just going to throw money at you to fix this because government is incompetent to fix it because we've set up the government with a reality TV star in charge who doesn't know what he's doing and thinks he can magical realism this problem away.
1:53.9	And when you begin the predicate by the government is the problem, you have just wiped out anyone who might think, you've just eliminated from the conversation, anyone who thinks, well, maybe governments exist among people to help us solve the problems that we individually cannot solve.
2:12.4	Maybe that's why you have governments.
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