Side Effects of a Two-Party System (with Eugene Puryear)

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Kids & Family, Performing Arts, Arts, Education For Kids, Visual Arts

4.8 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are joined by journalist and activist Eugene Puryear to give historical context to how the US got stuck in a two-party system, clear up misconceptions around 3rd party votes, and imagine a different way forward.

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0:00.0	Small doses.
0:04.6	Self help from the hit.
0:06.0	Small doses.
0:07.1	We're talking at shit.
0:08.6	Small doses.
0:09.8	And keep in real.
0:11.2	Small doses.
0:12.4	With me and in Seals.
0:14.2	It's so funky.
0:17.0	What's up?
0:18.1	Small doses.
0:19.6	We are here for yet another episode.
0:22.6	As we continue with our transitioning into just far more educational episodes around radical thoughts and growth, et cetera.
0:35.8	Today's guest is somebody that I actually was introduced to via speakerphone while I was
0:42.4	on a freedom ride down the Eastern Seaboard in support of really working with labor unions
0:51.4	and organizations to continue to amplify immigration rights, workers' rights,
0:59.8	democratic rights, et cetera.
1:01.7	And I was saying that I was going to be doing an episode of this show surrounded where
1:05.6	I was going to have to debate people and that I'm really not a debater like that.
1:09.3	And Claudia de la Cruz was like,
1:13.0	you need to talk to Eugene per year.
1:15.0	He is a debate master.
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