The big debate among democratic circles is about the word socialism. It really needs to be about the word freedom. Billionaires claim that freedom means no taxes for the billionaires. Industrialists claim that freedom means no regulation for their industries. Neo-Nazis claim that freedom means they have the right to terrorize, in big ways and small, minorities.

When Democrats talk about freedom, it's in the context of the American dream. If you are hungry, homeless, unemployed, sick without healthcare, or unable to get an education you are not "free." The Koch brothers have owned the word freedom with things like their group Freedomworks. We need to take that word back and put it at the center of our arguments.

Medicare for all, guaranteed good jobs or a basic income, free college education, and strengthening social security all enhance the freedom of working class Americans. Well billionaires see these as oppression, the rest of us understand they are at the core of the American dream, and that is all about freedom.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump and Bolsonaro Put Their Bromance to Its First Test" by Mac Margolis.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""His Condition Is Getting Worse": Trump Spirals Online As His Presidency Reaches A Crisis Point" by Eric Lutz.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Trump Issues First Veto After Congress Rejects Border Emergency" by Michael Tackett.

Article: "Poll: Half of Americans say Trump is victim of a 'witch hunt' as trust in Mueller erodes" by Susan Page and Deborah Barfield Berry.

Video: FDR Second Bill of Rights Speech Footage.

Article: "16th Amendment. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..."

Article: "Jacinda Ardern says cabinet agrees New Zealand gun reform 'in principle'" by Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Article: "Super Rugby: Crusaders consider new name in wake of Christchurch shooting tragedy" by Stuff.

Article: "Brazil, US back Guaido as Venezuela's interim president" by AFP.

Article: "Trump's vile and unhinged weekend performance demands a response from Congress" by Mark Sumner.

Documentary: The Brainwashing Of My Dad.

Tweet: "To Republicans who've been inclined to acquiesce in a Trump re-nomination in 2020: Read his tweets this morning. Think seriously about his mental condition and psychological state. Then tell me you're fine with him as president of the United States for an additional four years." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "N.Y. attorney general says Trump illegally used his foundation for campaign" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Jacinda Ardern" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gun Maker Can Be Sued Over Marketing For Rifle In Sandy Hook Shooting" by Dave Collins.

Article: "Poll Of Likely 2016 Voters" by GBA Strategies on behalf of the Progressive Change Institute.

Article: "Kirsten Gillibrand" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kirsten Gillibrand Officially Announces 2020 White House Run" by Mairead McArdle.

Article: "A Republican pushed mandatory AR-15s. After mosque shootings, he says it was a ploy to bait the left." by Isaac Stanley-Becker.

Site: Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club.

Site: Redneck Revolt.

Hour Two: Thom vs Sheriff Mack - If Trump Loses the 2020 Election and Claims the Election Was Stolen & Is Widely Believed on the Right, What Percentage of Sheriffs Would Define His Claimed "right" to stay in the White House? Would they Travel to DC to Enforce?
- Sheriff Richard Mack, The Constitutional & Peace Officers Association/Oath Keepers

Tweet: "Trump appears to envision mass right wing violence against the left. Two days ago he told Breitbart, "It's so terrible what's happening. You know, the left plays a tougher game, it's very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher..."" by @brucewilson.

Tweet: "It was only after I'd finished this thread that I remembered that the 2014 novel "Victoria" by William S. Lind had an American civil war starting in 2020. Trump met Lind in early 2016, and multiple copies of Lind's book "The Next Conservatism" circulated in the Trump campaign." by @brucewilson.

Book: Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by Thomas Hobbes (William S. Lind).

Quote: "You know, the left plays a tougher game, it's very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don't play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump - I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough - until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "2017 Berkeley protests" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Washington state: at least 20 county sheriffs refuse to enforce new gun laws" by Jason Wilson.

Article: "List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Bible: "Exodus 20 : Ten Commandments".

Article: "Cyrus the Great in the Bible" by Wikipedia.

Article: "L. Ron Hubbard" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Aleister Crowley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787" by James Madison.

Tweet: "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" by George Conway.

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "So Few Americans Understand What the Second Amendment Is Really About – or Its Dark History" by Thom Hartmann.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "HHS surges ahead on Medicaid work requirements" by Sam Baker.

Hour Three: Wajahat Ali - The Roots of the Christchurch Massacre
- Wajahat Ali, Contributing Opinion Writer, New York Times

Article: "The Roots of the Christchurch Massacre" by Wajahat Ali.

Article: "White genocide conspiracy theory" (The Great Replacement conspiracy theory) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What the Christchurch Killer's Manifesto Tells Us" by Jordan Weissmann.

Article: "Pittsburgh synagogue shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's 'Caravan' Is a Made-up Monster Fabricated by the Far Right" by Ian Allen.

Article: "Buckle up! Here's a timeline of George Soros conspiracy theories" by Marcus Baram.

Article: "New Zealand Mosques Shooting Suspect Called Trump a 'Symbol of White Supremacy' and Claimed He Was Just a 'Regular White Man' Ensuring a 'Future for My People'" by Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Article: "'Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim" by Jason Wilson.

Video: Breitbart admits "Cultural Marxism" is "his" conspiracy theory.

Article: "Anders Behring Breivik" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump tells Fox to 'bring back' Jeanine Pirro; source says she was suspended for Islamophobic remarks" by Brian Stelter.

Article: "Coast Guard officer pleads not guilty to weapon and drug charges" by Alex Dobuzinskis.

Movie: "Reefer Madness".

Article: "Deradicalizing White People" by Wajahat Ali.

Article: "Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt', Australian promoters' documents show" by Jason Wilson.

Article: "Milo Yiannopoulos, rightwing writer, permanently banned from Twitter" by Elle Hunt.

Article: "Facebook removes 22 more Alex Jones pages after its latest policy update" by Casey Newton.

Article: "Trump Shut Programs to Counter Violent Extremism" by Peter Beinart.

Article: "Affirmative action at the University of Michigan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh suggests New Zealand shootings might be a false flag attack committed by a leftist to smear conservatives" by Media Matters.

Article: "Worth it! I'm not just on DU, I also edit Wikipedia." by ck4829.

Article: "Category:White nationalist terrorism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Tax Experiment That Failed" by ITVS Independent Lens.

Movie: "Tomorrow Never Dies".

Quote: "When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression" - unknown.

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