Double D sits down with special guest Alex Klein for the 48th episode of the "Entitled Millennials" podcast!
Alex Klein is a historian, writer, and activist from Northern Iowa. He is a former TEDx speaker and a former mayoral candidate for Mason City, Iowa.
In this episode Double D and Alex Klein discuss how the two met doing activist work, Klein's bid for Mayor of Mason City, Iowa, careerists in municipal government vs active community members, bureaucracy vs government, both gentlemen preferring a career as organizers rather than politicians, having the "political gene", Trump's ban from social media and its implications for freedom of speech, Ron Paul's Facebook page being banned for calling out Big Tech, social media algorithm's contributing to divisive politics, the most recent episode of E.M.P. being fact checked because of QAnon, the fear of what's to come because we lack a coordinated leftist movement, Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and the birth of reactionary politics in the United States, Trump's genius political speech, the God of the American Dream, can the Democratic Party be reformed, the #forcethevotemovement, the American Legislative Exchange Council and its grip at American politics, the shortness of the human attention span contributing to political disinformation, the Democrats failing to act even on social justice issues, wealthy elites like Jeff Bezos only being the tip of the ice berg for the ruling class, "Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to become President?", our need to live in a real democracy not a republic, and Klein's thoughts on the God-like state of the human species!
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