Pains in the Ass for Democracy: A Conversation with Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Trump administration’s goal is going to be to divide and conquer. To isolate us from each other and break our resolve and spirit, but Indivisible believes, that if we stand together, we can protect our families, our neighbors, and our democracy. That our shared future depends on every day Americans choosing to fight back. To treat an attack on one of us as an attack on all of us, and they’ve written a Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink to help us do just that. The Guide is a set of strategies and common sense steps for anyone living in America feeling upset, scared, or determined to do something. This is a hopeful and fired up episode for those of us done mourning and ready for action. Mainstream media has let us down, so we need to support those doing independent work more than ever. The extremists were able to shape the minds of this nation because the far right invested in their voices early and often. Please give the counter message an opportunity to fight back. If you find worth in what we do here, please SUBSCRIBE to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with the rants, directly to your inbox so even if I’m off social media, you will still get access my work. I can’t do this, now dangerous, work without your help. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today. Thank you so much! xoPG GUEST SOCIALS: https://indivisible.org/ As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://mintmobile.com/politicsgirl https://ShopMDHearing.com code: PoliticsGirl https://wildgrain.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://PublicRec.com code: PoliticsGirl DeleteMe : TEXT PoliticsGirl to 64000

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0:00.0	You want your elected officials to be afraid of you, right? You want them to be like, oh, God,
0:04.7	that's going to, they're going to waste my time. They're going to, or they're going to pull my time away.
0:08.7	They're going to get a bad story in the paper. I'm going to have to have like six different meetings
0:12.9	because of that action that they did that got the them are our friends, and we want to cheer them on and help them and make their lives easier.
0:22.5	Some of them are not our friends.
0:23.8	And we want to make sure that they have to spend a ton of time worrying about us instead of coming up with their next plan to do something bad, right?
0:30.5	Because an hour that they spend distracted by us by something that we've put in motion is an hour that they are not able to spend moving their
0:38.1	next terrible plan to hurt people.
0:52.0	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:55.2	How do you counter Trump's oligarchy? How do you win back America against a fascist takeover?
1:00.8	Blue state governors are currently working to try and Trump-proof their states, and agencies and
1:05.3	organizations like Move On, Indivisible, Planned Parenthood in the ACLU are working overtime to do the same.
1:11.7	In fact, independent and progressive groups across the country are seeing huge new numbers
1:16.1	of subscribers and supporters post-election. We have to keep reminding ourselves that Trump does not
1:21.1	have the mandate he's promoting. If 100,000 people in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin
1:26.3	had voted Democrat instead of Republican,
1:28.3	or if more people had just come out to vote, we would have a completely different country right now.
1:32.9	But now we face an incredible uphill battle. However, instead of seeing where we are as a defeat,
1:38.4	I believe we are better served if we see it as an opportunity. As Tom Hartman said, America
1:43.7	itself was birthed in resistance.
1:46.1	We have a tradition of fighting oppression and top-down rule. And although Trump and his billionaire
1:50.5	henchmen plan to try and crush us, the opposition has already begun. To talk more about how to
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