How Liberalism Aids Fascism

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Click here for the full episode, including an extended interview with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor at Carlton College, coordinating committee member of the Black Alliance for Peace, and author of many books including the upcoming Black Scare/Red Scare, has had it with liberals pretending to care about regular people. Biden promises to help people with student loans while prosecuting bankrupt people in courts. Obama pretended to fight for civil rights while shutting down protests in Ferguson. Kamala Harris claims to help migrants while blaming them for underlying causes and telling them not to come. Liberal media calls to aid Nazis in Ukraine while ignoring genocides in other countries. And just this month we got the newest liberal win: “Ketanji Brown Jackson said Bush and Rumsfeld should be tried for war crimes, but that’s easy to say in retrospect. She didn’t say Joe Biden should be tried for war crimes, or Obama, or Kamala Harris.” And to all the people who do criticize Obama, she’s not cheering them on either. “Obama’s an easy target now, but where were your antennas in the moment?” The scholar goes through a history of liberal lies and war crimes and comes to the stark conclusion that “liberalism has always been amenable to fascism.” Plus, Dr. Charisse shares her reading list of books by Black scholars, and when it comes to controversies over CRT and the 1619 Project and other issues of race, she only has one piece of advice: just read Gerald Horne. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm one of your hosts, Katie Halper.
0:10.2	I'm the second of the two hosts, Aaron Matting.
0:12.9	How are you doing Aaron?
0:14.2	I'm well. I'm well. How are you? What's been happening?
0:16.2	I'm good. I'm good. I just got back from DC. I was there for a stand-up for a sond night
0:24.1	of music and comedy and then the next day, which was I guess Monday, there were some
0:31.4	protests and I attended one of them. It was good. It was Randy Cretico hosted it. The
0:37.0	stand-up night, Jaffa Khan was there, John F. O'Donnell, Lee Kamp, Margaret Cunsellor
0:42.6	Spoke, Medea Benjamin Spoke, Marion Williamson Spoke. It was a great night and Randy Cretico,
0:49.4	his dog Bianca died at a very ripe age. I can't remember how old, but in the teens, I think
0:55.3	the high teens, he would bring her all over with him. He was so cute and she died and he
0:59.8	was heartbroken and he got a new dog that was a gift for him from Roger Waters. Roger
1:06.8	Waters got Randy Sophia, who is really, really cute. In fact, I held her, there was like
1:13.1	a hand off. I held her while he was doing his MC and then I got up to do some stand-up
1:19.2	and I brought her up and then I also held her when I spoke in front of the Department
1:25.2	of Justice protest on that Monday because we need some levity. We need some canines.
1:30.4	We just need some canines in general. We need some canines in general. We need some
1:33.2	joy. Do you see her? Cute level off the charts. It's a certified cute dog. It's a
1:41.3	certified, cute dog, right? You know that I have no vanity because I look absolutely terrible
1:46.5	on this photo, but she looks great. Well, wait till you see the photo. She looks great.
1:51.4	I look very, it's kind of a monsterery photo of me. If you zoom in on her. You look fierce.
1:57.2	You look fierce. You got your microphone on one hand and a dog on the other. I know.
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