Three Right Turns

This week A.Ron talks briefly about the various messes we're in, and encourages people to help take the Senate back in Georgia, before doing a deep dive into the history and future of social wealth funds. What is a Social Wealth Fund? How has Norway's experience proved that government can effectively and responsibly manage such a thing? And could it possibly work here? We consider the American Solidarity Fund proposal from the People's Policy Project to find out!

Aiden joins A.Ron to discuss Court Rebalancing. Is the Supreme Court lost to progressives for a generation? What is the cost of such a loss? Is there any way we can fight back? What is legal, what is even possible? We consider several popular suggestions on rebalancing the Court, as well as how we can tactically and strategically achieve this. Bur first, A.Ron gives a pep talk about the current and future defeats of Trumpism.

Check out Aiden at Socialism Done Left. You can also follow him on Twitter.

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Congratulations, America! We dodged the authoritarian bullet for four more years. It was a close race, perhaps closer than we were hoping for, and maybe we'll be tempted to be disappointed in the outcome. After all, even if we take Joe Biden's win as a repudiation of Trump, we lost ground in the House and will have to work overtime in Georgia to potentially take the Senate in a tie. But is that a fair way to look at things? A.Ron engages in some post-election myth-busting to separate fact and fiction from the coverage of the 2020 elections. Should we see 2020 as a disappointment? Did Joe Biden steal the election? Can we trust polls and advanced data modeling? Should we worry about the democrats losing support among key minority demographics? All these myths and more will be put to the test!

A.Ron makes his closing arguments for why you, the listener, should make sure to go out this presidential election. Whether you're a third party voter, someone planning to sit out a battleground state race, or someone stuck in deep blue or deep red America, A.Ron has a little something to motivate you to get out there and vote. And if the worst should come to pass, and we find ourselves in an uncertain time with no clear winner and no clear loser, how can we prepare ourselves for that moment? What can we as citizens do to make sure our voice is heard and our nation chooses democracy?

If you want to be prepared for the worst case scenario, here are some sites and organizations that can help you organize with others to support democracy.

 

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A.Ron responds to mail he's gotten on recent shows! We talk about worker cooperatives, elitism in electoral politics, the Postal Service crisis, taxing income versus taxing capital gains, anti-racism, and cancel culture. With just the slightest of detours into caveman philosophy and Soviet misadventures in agriculture.

Join A.Ron next Thursday night, October 22nd at 9pm EST for the final presidential debate! Don't miss any live events and videos, be sure to subscribe to youtube.com/swizzbold today!

This week A.Ron goes over a 1995 essay by Umberto Eco, entitled "Ur-Fascism". What is fascism? What does it look like to be living in a democratic society that is slipping into fascism? What does it feel like? Does 21st century America embody any of the principles of "Ur-Fascism" that Eco outlines in his essay? What can we do to combat these tendencies?

A.Ron with a brief announcement; 3RT:26 is postponed to later in the week to make room for live covering the first 2020 Presidential Debate tonight, September 29th, at 9PM eastern. We'll be going live on Swizzbold's YouTube channel around 8:45 to get ready. Come watch with A.Ron and the rest of the Swizzbold community as we watch and react live along with the rest of the country.

See you tonight!

A.Ron has a great conversation with Vaush, a libertarian socialist, about how we can implement leftist economic ideas such as worker co-ops, market socialism, and stronger unions, from within a liberal free-market democracy. We also discuss his personal history, his style of debate and argument, why we cannot afford to abandon electoral politics, and his plans for the future.

Check out Vaush at his home on the internet, vaush.gg! You can also view his videos at youtube.com/vaush. If you want to view A.Ron's side of the conversation, we've archived it here at Swizzbold's YouTube channel.

Riopublican from the podcast Moving Forward returns to cross rhetorical swords with A.Ron about the bounds of acceptable discourse, BLM protests, defeating Trump, the merits of socialism and private property, two party realignment, how conservatives and liberals can work together on good policy, and much more.

If you enjoyed the discussion, be sure to subscribe to Moving Forward, where A.Ron is planned to be part of a regular rotation of lefty/progressive co-hosts finding areas of agreement and common ground in the world of politics!

Corey Cottrell comes back to share thoughts on Kamala Harris as Democratic VP pick, the latest on Trump's war on the USPS and mail in voting, then we get personal and talk about his recent split from the podcast Moving Forward, our concerns for liberals embracing Project Lincoln, and in what capacities can we work with conservatives towards good faith governance.