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What would make you leave your home and family and friends? And head to a country whose president hates you? Especially in a time of Covid 19, what would possibly motivate you to take this extreme step? In her new The post When There is No Option But North appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Myths are often more powerful than real history. Consider that for 200 years the meaning of the 2nd Amendment aroused no controversy. It was about both militias and individual rights for self defense. And there were limits. On this show, The post You Don’t Understand The Second Amendment appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Could the coronavirus-caused sudden disruption of the worldwide economy result in unforeseen exercise of harsh nationalism and extended government emergency powers? The people protesting with AR-15s are of course threatening the rest of us taking appropriate precautions. Meanwhile our guest The post Danger of Covid 19 Government Over-Reach ? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &a...

Pure individualism is not conservatism, much as though people who call themselves conservatives like to think it is. They’ll tell you the American Dream is individuals becoming super rich. But the more traditional definition is one of equal opportunity and The post “Conservatives” Not At All Conservative appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Often called the father of scientific or objective history, the ancient Greek philosopher Thucydides did not see himself that way. According to our guest, history can never be a blueprint. We just can’t make sense of it. There are no The post Hardly A Science, Can We Actually Learn From History? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

A new executive order by President Trump stamps a radical new definition on the meaning of anti-semitism. Its purpose is to clamp down on freedom of speech. A Chicago area rabbi says her congregants have said “this feels like the The post Trump Order Threatens Jews and Free Speech appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Chinese leadership in Beijing is very insecure. They control many distinct regions of the vast country and what’s going on right now in Hong Kong makes them worry about leakage. Former Hong Kong and China correspondent for BusinessWeek Dave Lindorff The post Hong Kong Explained appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

When Nixon lied, it was an earthquake. Now Trump lies many times a day. Does it matter? Why is it that evangelicals remain solid with Trump? How is it that evangelicals no longer care about his personal immorality? Do Christian The post Evangelicals Quit Nixon: Why Do They Stick With Trump? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

If we criticize Trump, we don’t love America. If we learn history, we are disloyal. You know that’s what a lot of people on the right (in larger numbers than we’d imagined) are claiming. But what is Patriotism? Does the The post Are Most Americans Unpatriotic? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Well into the 21st century, everything has changed except our way of thinking, which remains rooted in 19th century values which unnecessarily hold us back. Millions of people hate their jobs and are relegated to living as passive consumers when The post An Optimistic/Realistic 21st Century Vision appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

What do the new anti-choice laws and the old Fugitive Slave Laws have in common? They both strengthen the power of the state and white male rule over people deemed less-than. In the 1850s, northerners who thought slavery was not The post New Anti-Abortion and Old Fugitive Slave Laws appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

“For the first time in the history of our country, the government has brought criminal charges against a publisher for the publication of truthful information.” The ACLU clearly recognizes the serious new threat to our First Amendment in the form The post Crackdown on Press Freedom Has Begun appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We take democracy for granted, but as author Richard C.Lyons tells it, democracy is a recessive gene. Tyranny is much more able to dominate. Tyranny? What does that ancient word even mean? In his new book: The DNA of Democracy, The post DNA of Democracy: It’s a Recessive Gene appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Gandhi and Nehru took their inspiration from the Irish, people like Arthur Griffith. Who? Though violence gets all the headlines, rendering the powerful suddenly powerless though noncooperation is by far the most effective tactic. Our guest Professor David C. Cochran The post Nonviolent Refusal To Cooperate: The Irish Set The Standard appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Rad...

It’s a uniquely powerful new tool: undermining peoples psychological ability to know and accept reality. In his new book: State of Confusion; Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, nationally renowned clinical psychologist and author Bryant Welch answers The post How Trumpism Liberates Americans from Complex Realities appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcas...

Democracy in 18th century America worked fairly easily. Nearly 250 years later, we are the least democratic of all the world’s republics. Right, left, or independent: nearly all Americans feel frustrated that the ability for average citizens to have power The post Time to Move Democracy From the 18th Into 21st Century appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Ask today and everyone will tell you the American Dream is individuals becoming super rich. But the more traditional definition was one of equal opportunity and justice for all. Americans shared a belief in the social contract and a sense The post Conservative American Dream Has Been Flipped on Its Head appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

With his open appreciation of violent white nationalists, his insistence that he is above laws, his admiration for dictators, Trump has long embraced the rhetoric of fascism. But with his new attacks on the Justice Department for indicting his special The post From Rhetorical to Full On Fascism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Those who were surprised that Facebook was widely distributing personal information were quite naive. Our expectation of privacy is so very quaint. This according to veteran private eye Judith Coburn, whose new article on TomDispatch is titled Goodbye to All The post Big Brother Much Bigger Than 1984 appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

“What we’ve got here is a systems problem.” Americans honor brave whistleblowers and serious investigative journalists who  reveal covered up truths. But according to today’s guest Professor Lawrence Davidson, in his article on CounterPunch, the fate of the very controversial The post Must Truth Be Outside the Mainstream? Assange and Journalism appeared first on KDA Keeping...