Description: Bill, Rachel, and Nate discuss the historical tension in US politics between social rights and individual rights, the 1940s movement for social rights, and why this has returned to the fore in the 2020 race.
Links and Notes for Episode 8 (PDF): http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lend-Lease-Episode-8-Links-and-Notes-Social-Rights-vs-Individual-Rights.pdf
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The Democratic Party leadership has come completely unmoored from the party base and any coalition necessary to win national elections. But with the party’s legally enshrined institutional power and mass membership in play and time running out on the climate, we are locked in a brutal power struggle. (On the show this week: Bill, Rachel, Nate)
Links and Notes for Episode 7: http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lend-Lease-Ep-7-Links-and-Notes-Democratic-Leadership-Attacks-on-the-Left.pdf
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This week Bill, Rachel, and Nate talk about Mediterranean piracy, the Golden Age of Caribbean & Atlantic piracy, and East Asian piracy.
Links and notes summer episode 6: http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lend-Lease-Episode-6-Links-and-Notes-Piracy.pdf
Original music by Stunt Bird.
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This week Bill, Rachel, and Nate talk about American socialist mayors of history.
Links and notes summer episode 5: http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lend-Lease-Episode-5-Links-and-Notes-Municipal-Socialist-Politicians-of-the-United-States.pdf
Original music by Stunt Bird.
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This week Bill, Nate, and Greg discuss the evolution of Medicare For All discourse from the 2015 Democratic debates to the 2019 Democratic debates as well as the political evolution of Delaware since Joe Biden was first a Senator.
Original music by Stunt Bird.
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This week Bill, Rachel, and Nate talk about left-wing housing policy and historical factors in Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, Barcelona, Kerala, and Massachusetts.
Links and notes summer episode 3: http://arsenalfordemocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/afd-lend-lease-3-links.pdf
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This week Bill, Rachel, and Nate talk about Biden’s flip-flops on the Hyde Amendment and the DNC’s decision to refuse to hold a climate policy debate or allow candidates to participate in one by anyone else.
Links and notes summer episode 2: PDF.
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