On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff  discuss the increasingly unstable political environment, as Dr. Wolff  writes about in his newest article. He argues that some politicians are  denying there are any problems while some find a scapegoat where they  can direct people's anger--and both of which are symptoms of the  political elite desperately trying to protect the capitalist system.

Professor  Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization  Democracy at Work. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com, and read the article here: https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/capitalism.

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