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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

GOP White Supremacy, Esquire's Balanced Budgets, and Happy Birthday Driftglass

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

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2010

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Happy Halloween! We discuss why the real political divide is between scared white people and everybody else. Election week burnout leads us to talk actual issues, especially Esquire.com's plan to actually balance the budget by 2020. And BG wishes Driftglass a very happy birthday (Oct 30). Support the show

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0:00.0

This is the podcast for October 29th, 2010.

0:03.4

It's not safe for work.

0:04.7

Coming to you live from inside zombie Lee Atwater's Undead Imagination.

0:09.5

It's the special Halloween edition of the professional left with Drift Class and Blue Gal. Because that's where we live now, Blue Gail.

0:27.8

We live in the undead imagination of zombie Lee Atwater's disembodied head.

0:33.9

We do.

0:34.7

Our entire political process has become Lee Atwater's fever dream.

0:39.5

I was thinking about that this morning because I got a postcard from Barack Obama.

0:45.1

And I got a phone call from Barack Obama this week too.

0:48.2

I really need you to vote.

0:50.0

I really need you to vote.

0:51.3

I really need you to vote.

0:52.3

And I realized, you know, this is being directed at two sets of people, overeducated liberal whites and non-whites.

1:02.8

And that's it.

1:04.9

And it occurred to me that we have become, and it's very sad. but the Republican Party is the white supremacist party, literally.

1:15.9

And I mean that in the sense of whites wanting their quote-unquote country back, wanting to be supreme again, wanting to be in charge.

1:25.0

And it's not Barack Obama that is the enemy, so to speak, of that white supremacist.

1:31.9

And I don't mean that just in the clan sense.

1:34.4

I mean that in the sense of whites being the dominant societal controllers of America.

1:41.0

Well, but let's be clear that the white supremacist movement was the violent arm of that ideology.

1:46.9

Of that ideology.

1:47.8

But that ideology has remained completely intact and ever more threatened.

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