The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's biggest decisions -- access to abortion under Roe v. Wade. The right wing is on the move and the left needs a clear understanding of just where they're headed and how to be able to effectively fight back. What does Dobbs indicate for other democratic rights that we thought were guaranteed?
Producer Nicole Roussell and Brian discuss the very significant political changes in the domestic policy situation in the United States, and the Attica prison uprising and massacre 51 years ago today.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we continue our series on the new era of global and domestic politics. |
| 0:06.2 | In this episode, we focus on the changing political environment inside the United States. |
| 0:11.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:15.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:19.8 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this episode of the Socialist program. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Nicole Roussel, a producer of the show, here with host Brian Becker. If you enjoy or rely on the show or both, please show your support by subscribing to our show on patreon.com slash the socialist program. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, like I said, we're going to continue a series of conversations on the socialist program on our orientation toward the current period, |
| 1:10.7 | which we believe |
| 1:11.4 | will be a dramatic one for politics both inside the United States and globally as the U.S. |
| 1:16.9 | reorients for major power conflict. |
| 1:19.4 | Today we're going to focus on U.S. domestic politics. |
| 1:22.4 | Last week we talked about the international situation and what we described as a new era in |
| 1:26.5 | global politics. |
| 1:27.9 | We used the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 as the point of demarcation. |
| 1:33.7 | The Russian military action indeed has inaugurated a new period of global politics. |
| 1:38.7 | And we really encourage you to give that show a listen if you missed the episode from last Tuesday. |
| 1:43.9 | And you can find it on |
| 1:44.9 | any podcast platform, any app that you use for podcasts, and you can check out all the ones that are |
| 1:50.4 | available on our link tree at the socialist program. That's linktr.e slash the socialist program. |
| 1:57.5 | But today, as I said, we're going to focus on very significant changes inside the |
| 2:01.5 | United States and the domestic political situation, and we believe that the changes in the |
| 2:06.4 | domestic political situation could have very far-reaching ramifications. And this, again, |
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