In season 3 of The Wilderness, Jon Favreau talks to voters in the midterm battleground states who will determine the future of democracy. With the help of grassroots organizers, strategists and his own experience as a campaign veteran and speechwriter for Barack Obama, Favreau will unpack what it will take for Democrats to reach these voters and hold together a pro-democracy coalition in 2022 and beyond.
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What the fuck is “Democracy”?
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Sisällön tarjoaa In Defense of Liberation!. In Defense of Liberation! tai sen podcast-alustan kumppani lataa ja toimittaa kaiken podcast-sisällön, mukaan lukien jaksot, grafiikat ja podcast-kuvaukset. Jos uskot jonkun käyttävän tekijänoikeudella suojattua teostasi ilman lupaasi, voit seurata tässä https://fi.player.fm/legal kuvattua prosessia.
In this episode, I begin our discussion on democracy, by investigating some of the main stream philosophers’ quotes - from ancient Greek and Roman societies, the enlightenment, and colonial times to today - to get us started. this leads us into a discussion about whether this “Democracy” is a lie, a mythology, or a real-material description of a system where ruling class property owners and capitalists, their children, their families, their business partners, and their class get a real say in the formation of the Capitalist-Imperialist “Democracies”. Similarly to how the standing armies, parliaments, supreme courts and congresses came to exist as a tool, and apparatus of the state to further dominate the oppressed and working class, is “Democracy” simply an ideal we cannot reach, or a real-life system based on the rule of many, over the few (who get to vote sometimes, don’t forget it! 😉)
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Sisällön tarjoaa In Defense of Liberation!. In Defense of Liberation! tai sen podcast-alustan kumppani lataa ja toimittaa kaiken podcast-sisällön, mukaan lukien jaksot, grafiikat ja podcast-kuvaukset. Jos uskot jonkun käyttävän tekijänoikeudella suojattua teostasi ilman lupaasi, voit seurata tässä https://fi.player.fm/legal kuvattua prosessia.
In this episode, I begin our discussion on democracy, by investigating some of the main stream philosophers’ quotes - from ancient Greek and Roman societies, the enlightenment, and colonial times to today - to get us started. this leads us into a discussion about whether this “Democracy” is a lie, a mythology, or a real-material description of a system where ruling class property owners and capitalists, their children, their families, their business partners, and their class get a real say in the formation of the Capitalist-Imperialist “Democracies”. Similarly to how the standing armies, parliaments, supreme courts and congresses came to exist as a tool, and apparatus of the state to further dominate the oppressed and working class, is “Democracy” simply an ideal we cannot reach, or a real-life system based on the rule of many, over the few (who get to vote sometimes, don’t forget it! 😉)
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