Episode 655| A Farewell to Ignorance

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Enough is enough. Time to move on from hoping to talk sense into a group that doesn't want any.

Long story short, we've got to work. We've got to organize more. We've got to get into position to actually effect change. Shouting at Democrats from the sidelines while Republicans are running up the score for neoliberalism is a failing strategy.

Let's talk about it.

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0:00.0	The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support.
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0:12.0	Today's and join the Progressive Army.
0:18.0	Today is September 30th, Sunday, September 30th, 2018. I wanted to get this episode in before the end of the month and I also wanted to get this something out for our patrons just as a way
0:26.8	of saying thank you to our patrons for making the show possible I have let's get
0:32.4	right to the point one of the things that I've talked about
0:36.6	regularly on this show is my reluctance to engage in a certain or any fight, believe it or not. I know many of you who know me
0:48.8	from Twitter know that it seems like I'm always in a fight, but that's not really the case.
0:53.7	What happens is that once I decide to take on a fight or once I decide I'm through
1:01.2	with a certain group, I burn it all down and then I move away and I'm
1:07.3	pretty much done with it it usually happens over a course of a couple of days and
1:11.4	it's ugly and it is it is what it is but that's why I
1:17.2	avoid things for as long as I can I knew two years ago when I first started this and first started well actually I started
1:26.4	the show like four years ago but I knew about two years ago during the primaries that
1:30.9	eventually I was going to have to fight some people on the left
1:35.2	rhetorically speaking because on the left there's something that's been
1:41.6	there that it's always here, right?
1:43.5	It's always been here.
1:45.7	I'm sure we can trace it back to the 60s, and if not,
1:51.4	I'm sure there are intellectual precursors for this.
1:54.8	But there are those on the left who,
1:57.4	I would say they're satisfied with,
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