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Ep 981: Build Back Better
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Episode 981 traces the Republican descent from the 1990 New York Times editorial warning about Gingrich's "slash and burn" politics through Limbaugh, Fox News, and Trump—a 36-year disaster that Liberal bloggers warned about while being dismissed as cranks. Driftglass and Blue Gal use a science-fiction classic AND a rebuilding story from the not-too-distant past to argue that democracy can be rebuilt and improved, with new/old systems to prevent the next Trump.
This episode marks 21 years of Driftglass blogging to, in the case of one popular post, 33,000 total views, while MAGA bottom-feeders pull millions daily. But Driftglass insists that the work is more necessary than ever. It's about consequences, not retribution, actions, not sins, and why rebuilding will take a generation—so what? Nobody promised it would be easy or quick.
Link for this episode: Science Fiction University, “The Day The Earth Stood Still” in Historical Context -- https://www.sciencefictionuniversity.com/2024/04/the-day-earth-stood-still-in-historical.html
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