Jacobin Show: Pain and Politics in Rural America w/ Jennifer Silva
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the audio version of the show from February 10, 2021. Ariella and Paul are out, with David Griscom filling in as co-host.
In this episode, sociologist Jennifer Silva explains how rising economic inequality and the decline of social institutions has devastated rural America and led the rural working class to disengage from politics. Jen Pan and guest host David Griscom discuss liberals' misguided contempt for "red state" America.
Jennifer Silva is an assistant professor at Indiana University and the author of the books Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty and We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jack of In Show. |
| 0:19.8 | You may have noticed my regular co-host, Ariela, is out today and Paul was in the intro |
| 0:26.7 | graphic. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm also not here, but we are joined by David Griscombe, who many of you may be familiar |
| 0:34.3 | with from his prior work on the Jack of In Channel. |
| 0:37.6 | He is also the co-host of the Left YouTube show, Left Reckoning, which I described to |
| 0:43.9 | somebody the other day as the only Western-themed left show on YouTube. |
| 0:49.9 | Confirmer Denai, David. |
| 0:50.9 | It's very true and we were really lucky to have Jen on recently. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm happy to be here hanging out on Jack and I love the opening piece, it's really got |
| 0:58.8 | me in the mood today. |
| 0:59.8 | A little bit different from our theme on Left Reckoning, but it's a good time nonetheless. |
| 1:05.0 | Everybody check out Left Reckoning if you haven't subscribed already. |
| 1:08.7 | Of course, David, welcome to the show. |
| 1:10.9 | Happy to have you on today for what I think is going to be a pretty good episode. |
| 1:15.4 | I do want to mention, so Ariela and I actually pre-recorded the interview with our guest, |
| 1:22.2 | Jennifer Silva, so stick around for that. |
| 1:25.0 | It's a great interview. |
| 1:26.6 | Jennifer Silva is a sociologist and a professor at Indiana University. |
| 1:32.0 | She's the author of the book We're Still Here, Pain and Politics in the Heart of America. |
| 1:37.0 | We obviously borrowed the title for this episode from her subtitle and her book is a really |
| 1:43.7 | rich, sort of in-depth series of interviews with working-class people who are living |
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