#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need
Wed 4:10pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 4/2/2025 Love them or loathe them, the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on Trumpism but we need a whole lot of new energy and new commitments to the fight to turn them into an opposition worthy…#1700 Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists
Sat 3:04pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/28/2025 You might not be trans yourself but that's just like how coal miners aren't canaries because when they saw that the canaries were under threat, they knew the danger was all around them. Fascists always start with those who are the easiest to…#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback)
Mar 26, 2025, 7:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date: 3/29/2022 Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political gain. The current wave of anti-trans and anti-gay legislation sprouting across the…SOLVED! #3 - Common Sense Is Not So Common
Mar 24, 2025, 10:52 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3–24-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Our new game Satire Showdown - The authoritarian takeover of the term common sense - How Americans actually feel about DEI initiatives - The right’s turn on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney…#1699 A Government Of the People, By the People, and Weaponized Against the People
Mar 21, 2025, 1:02 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/21/2025 If you've been paying attention, the weaponization of the government against Trump's political and ideological enemies is exactly what you would have seen coming and now it's here. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at…Bonus Edition #341 - SOLVED! Like a Flame in the Night
Mar 19, 2025, 4:12 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3–19-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - A special little ditty Jay put together - The legitimate problems that helped birth the damaging MAHA movement - Sherrod Brown’s OpEd on how the Democrats lost their way - What Jay learned…#1698 Resistance is Not Futile: Support the collective revolt against Trumpism (Special Podcasthon!)
Mar 18, 2025, 12:46 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/18/2025 In this special Podcasthon episode, we're joining thousands of podcasts around the world in taking the opportunity this week to support a cause or organization that we believe in. In this time of fighting fascism, Best of the Left has chosen…#1697 The Trump World Order: Are we the Baddies?
Mar 15, 2025, 11:21 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/15/2025 It always bears repeating that the progressive perspective on the state of the world is not that everything was going just fine before Trump showed up but there's a world of difference between the leftist desire to improve things and Trump's…#1696 Monthly Mix: Ethnic Cleansing Gaza, Mass Deportations, Deconstructing the State, Trump's…
Mar 12, 2025, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/12/2025 The (Approximately) Monthly Mix is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at the future for Gaza, Trump's plans for mass deportations, the decline of the US on the international stage, the…Bonus Edition #340 - SOLVED! Prophetic Voices from the Past and Hope for the Future
Mar 9, 2025, 8:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3–9-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The Founding Fathers’ prophetic concerns that we don’t ever talk about - FDR VP Harry Wallace’s op-ed on American fascism from 1944 - Philosopher Richard Rorty’s chilling predictions from…#1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course and a Strategy to Hold Power
Mar 7, 2025, 1:47 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/7/2025 Corruption, for those who indulge, isn't just a perk of power, it can also be a method of maintaining it. Trump is not bothering to hide the corruption he's working to facilitate or how it's geared toward supporting his desire for unchecked…#1694 Unhealthy Discourse: RFK Jr. and the Anti-Science Movement Endangering Global Health
Mar 4, 2025, 1:44 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/4/2025 An old proverb says that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and we're all about to see how dangerous as know-nothings and science skeptics take over the government agencies staffed by doctors and scientists with the goal of keeping the…Bonus Edition #339 - SOLVED! The Power of Entrepreneurial Spirit Compels You!
Sun 2:54pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3-2-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - How “entrepreneurialism” has gained unearned adoration and disempowered labor organizing - The 100-year-old “New Thought” era and how it shaped our current culture of work - The social…#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis Throwback)
Feb 28, 2025, 11:52 am By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date: 615/2022 The many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond but it mostly comes down to treating housing as a commodity to be profited from rather than a basic human need or, if you're feeling radical, a basic…#1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation
Feb 25, 2025, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/25/2025 Racism is at the core of most of what Trump believes so it should be no surprise when he aligns himself and the country with explicitly supremacist projects like the perceived Jewish superiority over Palestinians and the assumed "reverse…Bonus Edition #338 - SOLVED! Friends, Enemies, and Blood Chutes
Feb 23, 2025, 7:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-23-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The heavy influence of a Nazi political theorist (propagandist) on the MAGA movement - How our disagreements on baseline reality lead us to devastatingly different conclusions - What many Trump…#1692 Ethnically Cleansing America: Trump's racist whirlwind of deportation and criminalization of…
Feb 21, 2025, 1:30 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/21/2025 There is nothing other than racism at the heart of Trump's immigration policy. He wants to deport as many brown people as possible, stop as many immigrants and refugees as possible unless they're White people from South Africa or the nearly…#1691 Democracy Emergency, Constitutional Crisis, Democratic Backsliding, Failing Guardrails
Feb 18, 2025, 9:10 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/18/2025 Democracies slide into dictatorship in two ways, first slowly and then all of a sudden. We have been sliding in this direction for at least as long as I have been paying attention to politics and we're finally at the moment where that slow…Bonus Edition #337 - SOLVED! Bullying the Biggest Losers
Feb 16, 2025, 11:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-16-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Why we may be forced to bring back bullying - The impact of algorithms and what we can do about it - Democrats and the meaning of 'the medium is the message' - The unbelievable stupidity of…#943 No human being is illegal (Throwback)
Feb 15, 2025, 7:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date: 8/4/2015 The dysfunctional state of the US immigration system and the political fight brewing over what to do about it Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Full Show Notes…#1690 Oligarchy Unmasked: Why Billionaires Hate Democracy and How They're Dismantling It
Feb 11, 2025, 2:44 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/11/2025 The very rich, as has been noted before, are not on the side of regular people. And even if you think that the federal government needs a major reboot, no one but the ultra-wealthy are going to be happy with what they build in the aftermath…Bonus Edition #336 - SOLVED! Demystifying Our Reality
Feb 10, 2025, 12:55 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-10-25 Today, Jay! and Amanda (Deon and Erin were sick) discuss: - Why you should be using an RSS reader - The danger of Mystification as humans try to cope - Musk and Trump's flagrant law breaking - What Dems and you can do, with some tips from…#1689 The Media and the Moguls: Corporate Media is not equipped for Trump
Feb 7, 2025, 12:33 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/7/2025 Trump came in with a plan to subdue the media and large swaths of the media came in with a plan to acquiesce. But it's important to understand why because it's not a conspiracy or people wanting to do harm, it's structural to the system. Be…#1688 International Decline: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
Feb 4, 2025, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/4/2025 The era of unquestioned US hegemony is undoubtedly on the decline but the future is much more complicated and uncertain than the straightforward idea of China rising to take our place that we've been told. Though Trump is not the cause of US…Bonus Edition #335 - SOLVED! Good Advice in Bad Times
Sun 9:02pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-2-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: - How the resistance is transforming, not over - What actually worked when resisting Trump's first term - A curation of good advice on being effective and staying sane this time around FOLLOW US…#1687 Respite: Ceasefire in Gaza and the Legacy of Imperial Folly in the Middle East
Jan 31, 2025, 11:56 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 1/31/2025 The genocide and subsequent ceasefire in Gaza is only the latest horrifying consequence of botched military misadventures in the Middle East and if the history of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons can…#1686 Temperatures Rising, Tempers Flaring: LA Fires, Climate Emergencies, Conspiracies, and Water…
Jan 28, 2025, 2:13 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 1/28/2025 The existence of out-of-control wildfires in Los Angeles amid the rising climate crisis is not confusing or strange. How to deal with such an emergency during our ongoing political and information crisis is a completely different story. Be…Bonus Edition #334 - SOLVED! Collaborators, Internal Exiles, and Dissidents
Jan 26, 2025, 6:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 1-26-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: - The mindset of collaborators - Why many people turn inward and drop out - at their own risk - under authoritarianism - The nature of true dissidents and what we can learn from them FOLLOW US…#1085 A case against the myth of individualism (Throwback)
Jan 24, 2025, 4:39 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date: 3/7/2017 Today we look at the dangerous myths of individualism and the American Dream™, some of their origins and some of their consequences Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com…#1685 Faux Populism and Neoliberalism: Working People Are Stuck Between Oligarchy and Disregard
Jan 21, 2025, 1:19 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 1/21/2025 Decades ago, the conscious decision was made to exacerbate inequality for the sake of economic growth that would supposedly lift all boats. What probably wasn't understood at the time is that the logical conclusion of that choice would be to…
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