Daily Topics - Thursday November 8th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: The election is over and the work begins - Tom Hayden, Peace and Justice Resource Center / Plus, the democratization of public media - Tavis Smiley, The Tavis Smiley Show/Smiley & West
Hour Two: Is American Capitalism approaching an end game Monopoly state? Austin Petersen, Freedomworks / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - the REAL reason birds fall from the sky?
Hour Three: Why Americans want Democrats running the country...
Comments
#2
Re. values v. demographics in the election:
Two factors that played a part in the Obama win are: 1) The reasonable GOP candidates were weeded out early on in the primary and only the crazies and extreme ideologues were left standing. 2) A caller today mentioned that the welfare queen myth was debunked. A caller on Thom's or another show a while back; ---I think the context was the occupy movement--- said that with the declining middle class, people losing homes, people can't afford health care, etc.; a lot of whites were experiencing or seeing friends and relatives experience, what minorities had had to endure for generations.
Dan, San Diego.
#3
The game of Monopoly has a few rules but I've never heard a libertarian suggest that those rules be done away with. That suggestion would be blatantly absurd because the game wouldn't work any more. However, they reserve that suggestion for the real world.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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From Screwed:
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If Romney had won, I would have posted a quote from the Bible on Facebook. I didn't get around to looking it up, but it's the part where the people of Jerusalem ask for Barabbas the criminal instead of Jesus the wiseman.