Ep 980: Zombie Apocalypse

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 980 uses The Walking Dead's central question—"The world we knew is gone, but keeping our humanity? That's a choice"—to examine whether we accept that the political and cultural America we once knew is finished. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace the Republican zombie apocalypse from its inciting incident (Bush's 2004 reelection) through Obama's failed experiment in compromise, to Hillary's "deplorables" moment that proved prescient, to today's desperate pleas to coddle Trump voters with ou...

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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
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0:17.6	62791. This is the podcast for the week of March 27, 2006. It's not safe for work. Recorded live from the
0:27.4	Cornfield Resistance, where we don't negotiate with zombies. It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.
0:40.6	In our last exciting episode,
0:42.7	we took a short side trip
0:44.1	into our other somewhat neglected podcast,
0:47.7	Science Fiction University,
0:49.9	to talk about the very good movie,
0:52.0	Project Hail Mary,
0:53.4	and how the kind of hopeful future in the
0:57.0	face of catastrophe is worth watching. Yeah, it's a nice Star Trek-y, hopeful kind of thing.
1:03.4	Yeah, yeah. My late friend, who is a science fiction and fantasy author named Phyllis Eisenstein,
1:09.1	used to say all the time, we live in a science fiction universe, which is true.
1:14.2	And my response was always escapist literature, my ass, because, yeah, it is true, especially when it comes to technology, biology, and space travel, stuff like that.
1:24.0	Because cloning is real. Genetic engineering is real. Instantaneous, personalized video
1:29.5	communication across the globe is real. Space travel is real. Ultra-powerful computers are real.
1:36.0	And a fair imitation of actual AI is not just real, but companies offering it sponsors Super Bowl
1:42.7	ads touting it.
1:44.8	But the remarkable and entirely predictable thing about all these miracles and marvels
1:49.4	that Golden Age science fiction writers dreamed of coming true is how quickly they also became
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