SOLVED! SAMPLE! #36 - Bribery Jazz - Corruption is the Water We Swim In
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 3–18-26
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
- Ch. 1 - The dark history of money in politics, aka: corruption
- Ch. 2 - What the left must do to actually win
- Ch. 3 - What the rest of the world can teach America
- SOLVED! BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm (Members Only!): The reports of Christian fundamentalist "talk" in the military as the US attacked Iran
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REFERENCES
David Sirota Explains How Money Rewrote American Democracy - Current Affairs
The Left Is Losing Because We're Not Confrontational Enough - (From 2022) Current Affairs
Searching the Globe for Answers to America's Thorniest Problems - Current Affairs
BACKSTAGE
U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," Return of Jesus - Jonathan Larsen (Substack)
US troops were told war on Iran was 'all part of God's divine plan', watchdog alleges - The Guardian
EXTRAS:
(Buying these books, or another book, after clicking the links below helps support indie bookstores and this show!)
BOOK: "Master Plan: the Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America" by David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher
PODCAST: "Master Plan" by The Lever
ARTICLE: JD Vance and SCOTUS Case - Rolling Stone
BOOK: "Hostile Takeover" by David Sirota
BOOK: "Another World is Possible" by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
ARTICLE: How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash - The New York Times
ARTICLE: "The Huge Billionaire Election Influence In Numbers—Nearly One-Fifth Of All Donations" - Forbes
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| 0:33.3 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, although today we're sharing a sample of this week's episode of our other show, solved. |
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| 1:09.5 | like Best of the Left, the real benefits kick in when you hear the whole show, |
| 1:13.5 | which is greater than the sum of its parts. |
| 1:16.5 | Today, we are continuing our discussion about the fundamental problems ailing our democracy. |
| 1:22.5 | And by continuing our discussion, I mean, like, for the entire time we've been producing any podcast. |
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| 1:33.4 | So just going on 20 years a little bit more. |
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