Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Four out of five voters today live in flyover states, their votes don’t really count, they are mere spectators. But it’s no longer a question of if, but when: whoever wins the popular vote will become president. National Popular Vote The post Make Every Voter a Battleground Voter appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The Democratic establishment doesn’t get that people vote their morals. So says our guest David Fenton, successful public relations veteran of fifty years. Civil rights, wars, climate change: he says these are moral issues and people vote with their hearts The post PR Professional of the Left: Win by Touching People’s Morals appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & R...

What do you know about Bolivia? If you’re like me, you knew about Evo Morales, the first indigenous president, known as the Nelson Mandela of the Andes. Well the former landholding elite is back in power. And the IMF dictated The post From Indigenous Power to Fury in the Streets appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

If you don’t think people vote on foreign policy, consider that Kamala Harris lost because of Gaza. And that Obama beat Hillary because of her support for the war in Iraq. On this show, historian Van Gosse describes how effective The post To Build the Anti-War Movement, We Must Learn from the Past appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

What is the rules based order anyway? According to our guest, Bob Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future argues it’s a lie; the truth is it’s about the rule of American capital over productivity, never mind our European allies. The post Trump Broke the Rules Based Order. Why We Shouldn’t Bring It Back appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

What is the rules based order anyway? According to our guest, Bob Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future argues it’s a lie; the truth is it’s about the rule of American capital over productivity, never mind our European allies. The post Trump Broke the Rules Based Order. Why We Shouldn’t Bring it Back appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio...

I may have multiple myeloma but I am not multiple myeloma. Same is true for people with Alzheimer’s. On this slightly shortened show our guests are Dr. Anthony Goodman and his wife Meredith who helps him out. Tony is a The post June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month; Time to Destigmatize appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

They feel betrayed. What used to be a dependable advocate for working families has, over the last two decades, morphed into being a second party of the interests of the wealthy. From his own experience, our guest author Les Leopold The post Why the Working Class Has Given Up on the Liberal Establishment appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The real purpose of Trump’s big beautiful wall is to show power. Our guest says it’s a visceral metaphor for what the MAGAs hate; showing dominance. In his article in The Nation talking about what he calls “The Never Ending The post Nearly Forgotten But Not Gone: Trump’s Wall appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It started in hippie garages with people like the Whole Earth Catalog’s Stewart Brand: the promise of more freedom for more voices. Today the tech billionaires see democracy as the anti-Christ. Now ask yourself: has Apple computers liberated you? Irresponsible The post From a Benign Beginning, How the Tech World Turned Evil appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Sh...

The national media was accused of hiding Biden’s age related slippage, but they’ve been positively sheepish on what the world sees as an autocrat gone mad. Not just Republicans have been made to fear Trump’s power. His decline has thus The post Is The Trump Madness Media Dam Starting to Break? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

On this show Professor James K. Galbraith argues it has. The role of the military diplomatically is at least in question. Iran has clearly made out best in this temporary truce. No world power is likely to be intimidated by The post Has the US Military Proven Itself Obsolete? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Thanks in large measure to Donald Trump, there’s space opening up on the left. Far from becoming a 51st state, the Canadian New Democratic Party has chosen a new leader, and support for Avi Lewis is growing fast. If you The post There’s a New Left Rising In Canada appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s a long term necessity, but tragically, short term policy-makers put off a solution essential to a strong economy and restoration of our republican form of government. As of today, both the economy and democracy are in a downward spiral. The post A Wealth Tax: Boost the Economy and Democracy appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Did we give up on our president when 9/11 happened? Of course not, we rallied round the flag. Same thing is happening in Iran. Both Democrats and Republicans have forever bent over backwards for Israel, and today as a result The post The Iran War A Catastrophe for the US-Israel Alliance? That’s a Good Thing. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In a world of smart homes and cities, data is the coin of the realm. Everyone is vulnerable, nothing is too private. We consumers are unintentionally paying for our own surveillance. The fourth amendment is taking a beating in the The post With Smart Everything, Your Data Will be Used Against You appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

What we’re seeing today is a far cry from justice. Today’s policy of cruelty toward immigrants is an abject failure, yet it’s impractical to have a totally open border with Mexico. As with most solutions, the answer has to involve The post Immigration Justice: Is it Even Possible? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Even Fox News is openly admitting that Donald Trump’s policies are destroying the American farm industry. The agricultural heartland has been solidly ruby red for Trump but, as farmer and advocate Anthony Flaccavento writes in The Nation, there’s a Farmer’s The post Trump’s “Farms First” Now Beginning to Revolt appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &am...

While the hard right has had significant success in rallying young people (mostly males), the anger at ICE and a desire for a sense of belonging is moving more and more kids to the populist left. Look how many high The post The Kids Are Alright appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Why would an American president stab Americas signature industry in the back? Our guest today, Ryan Cooper senior editor of The American Prospect argues that it makes no actual economic sense but that Trump is dragging his obsessive anti-green agenda The post Why Did Trump Try to Kill the American Auto Industry? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

After an assassination attempt, Ngo Dinh Diem saw proof that he was God’s agent. In some ways he did try to do well for his people, but in others he and his family were ruthless against the majority Buddhist population The post Think You Knew The Story of Vietnam? Give a Listen. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

They were not victims of fascism, but characters who survived and eventually thrived. In this new book, The Secret Buttons, for young adults, author Ellen M. Shapiro spins the tale of kids coming to solutions their parents in 1938 did The post Illustrated Lessons of Kids Cleverly Fighting Fascism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

From tinny AM pop to stereo underground rock, WBCN was right at the vanguard. According to our guest, the legendary Charles Laquidara, it was part of an exciting wonderfully freeing time. A commercial station, it still managed to be the The post Laquidara On the Legacy of WBCN appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

More and more people are coming to the conclusion that keeping power utilities in corporate hands no longer makes sense. Legislators in conservative places like Hudson Valley and Massena NY are passing laws to put ownership of power companies in The post Democratic Socialist Solutions Embraced By Republicans in Upstate NY appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

There is in fact a lush garden of American greatness and it is not MAGA. Though less well known, there is a proud history of successful dissent which does make America great. Military power and straight white male domination is The post Historian Michael Kazin on America’s Enduring Actual Greatness appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .