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In phase one of French elections, the far right of Marine LePen did very well, winning about a third of the total. The next and crucial vote is July 7. According to on-the-ground reporter, Oliver Haynes, President Macron is likely The post On the French Election: First Far Right Regime Since WWII? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In a democracy, we expect to have our own say over how we are governed. There’s a great grumbling throughout America because many don’t feel listened to.  That’s the impetus behind today’s Trumpist populism. This populism is the voice of The post Heather Cox Richardson: Yes Democracy is Awakening appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Across the United States there is tremendous support for a taxing the wealthiest among us. So why doesn’t it happen? Well, in Massachusetts, it has. As Inequality.org’s Sam Pizzigati explains in this segment, there was powerful resistance  to the new The post Inspiration from Massachusetts: A New Wealth Tax Works appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The final chapter in our guest’s new book, Liberalism as a Way of Life asks the question: Requiem for a Liberal Way of Life? Well, is it really over? Reached in Sydney Australia where he’s professor of politics and philosophy The post Under Attack the World Over, What Is Liberalism? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Wisconsin is a key swing state in the upcoming election, with traditions of both real right and real left. On today’s show on-the-ground journalist Christina Lieffring tells us about realities in that 90% rural state. She says to win voters, The post Wisconsin Rural Voters: Challenge and Opportunity for Democrats appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Truman was down and nearly out. Then he did a campaign whistle stop tour of America and beat the odds. TV eye candy is one thing but seeing a president in the flesh connects far better, and connection is needed The post Should Biden Whistle Stop Campaign Across America? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s basic to the very essence of America. On this show Constitutional Law Professor John O. McGinnis argues that commerce was the mother’s milk of the American Revolution and that the virtues of commerce and idealism need not conflict. Listen The post There’s No Conflict Between Commercialism and Idealism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Most of us can guess but there’s nothing like serious scientific research when it comes to understanding political change. In her forthcoming book  How the Heartland Went Red, Harvard’s Stephanie Termullo shares her findings from extensive field research in three The post Why Place Supplants Issues in the Heartland appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show...

Politicians know the consequences of voters being ignored. There are tens of millions of people who used to be middle class but a revived Poor People’s Campaign just may connect and inspire. According to today’s guest, campaign policy director Shailly Gupta The post Waking the Sleeping Giant: 85 Million Americans appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Progressive Americans have looked to Europe for successful building of a strong economy which addresses climate change effectively. But now there is a new rise of a far right throughout Europe, starting with Trump’s buddy Orban in Hungary. As with The post The End of Europe? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We’re in wars all over the globe; is America more secure now? It’s basically been one war party in Washington for decades. The idea of restraint has been anathema to any member of congress, as every one seeks re-election and The post Conservatives Emerging Against Perpetual War appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

If the plaintiffs get their way, Moore vs United States could be the wedge that prevents a wealth tax. Guests on this show are law professors and authors Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath whose op-ed in the New York Times The post The Case Before the SupCo That Could Hjiack a Wealth Tax appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Keeping one ethnicity in control: The Israeli state and Modi’s India. Palestinians and India’s Muslim minority. The chumminess of Bibi and Modi. And in both cases, the oppressors ask: who lit the fire? On this show, Stan Cox explains the The post Parallels: Israel and India; Bibi and Modi appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The corporate powers in the late sixties were seriously freaked out by the powerful momentum of the left. So along came the 1971 Powell Memo, which was a battle plan to retake power. And it worked. On this show, economist The post The Left Can Win a Moral Revival appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In a democracy, we have a right to our own say over how we are governed: that’s what history shows is the impetus behind populism, both right and left. It says: we are experiencing economic injustice; how do we get The post Heather Cox Richardson: Yes, Democracy Is Awakening appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In the current American version of capitalism, all of us are “thingified:” our only value being as digits on the way to corporate profits. This reflects a core bias in the system toward serving the very richest. But it doesn’t The post Wealth Supremacy is On Autopilot: Time to Change appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Liberals usually fail to connect and inspire people of the rural mid-west. And we lose elections. But if we’re true to tradition, we should take the lead in solving rural alienation.  Our guest today Jessica Corbett explains a new report The post How About A Rural New Deal? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all boosted neoliberalism. But Biden is showing that he’s on a different track. Democrats in the 90s moved away from FDRs liberalism only to solidify Wall St’s hold on our economic life and political power. In The post The Demise of Neoliberalism: It’s About Real National Security. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It took a lot of persistent steady heavy lifting but New York State now has a new democratically run power authority. Instead of the traditional for-profit monopolies, the public good will determine a greener, less expensive supply of electricity. The post A Revolution in Public Power appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

What passes today for populism is anything but! It’s astounding that the far right calls itself that when they are the total opposite. Labor historian and author Steve Babson on this show clarifies the meaning of the word “populism:” and The post Trumpism: Opposite of Populism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Today’s right encourages and seeks to use men’s anger in the culture war, though their policies actually damage working class men. In their fear and rage at the gains for equality, as Washington Monthly editor William Norris notes, Sen. Josh The post Hawley And the Right: Wrong About Manhood appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The 19th and 20th century systems of control of the earth have failed; there’s a connection between famines and empire. Especially in the face of climate change, we have a lot to learn from indigenous and peasant systems; the idea The post The Earth for Humanity: A How-To appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s a puzzling mystery why so many working class people in the midwest go for Trumpism. Some answers are in Imagining the Heartland; White Supremacy and the American Midwest  by anthropologist authors Britt Halvorson and Joshua Renoit. It examines the The post The Roots of Anti-Woke appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The unchecked power of the Federal Reserve claims its current, never ending rate hike strategy is about curbing inflation. It is not, according to our guest today, economics professor Clara Mattei. That we have become so used to it we The post The Real Purpose of The Fed’s Rate Hikes and Austerity appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .