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November 30, 2019

Is Populism Always Right-wing? – Building a Winning Left, Part 3

Today, I’m going to try to answer the question: Is populism necessarily right-wing? So, in the media, and in political discussions, we hear a lot about populism. But most of the time, it’s used as a pejorative term, and often used a synonymous with fascism, or racism, or right-wing ideology. And that’s not necessarily the case, and I want to...

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November 17, 2019

Why politicians don’t like to be called populists | BBC Ideas

The A to Z of isms… populism. Populism sounds like democracy in action. It’s all about looking after the little guy, hearing what ordinary people want and giving it to them -or at least promising to give it to them. Oddly though, ‘populist’ is almost always a pejorative term -no one really wants the label. Most populist leaders would rather...

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October 30, 2019

CNN Anti Trump Panel Goes Bad When the Wrong Panelists Show Up

CNN Anti-Trump Panel Goes Bad When the Wrong Panelists Show Up BY BENJAMIN ARIE It�s no secret that CNN is no friend of President Donald Trump� but even the left-leaning news network couldn�t skew the facts against the president when a panel of �everyday� Americans showed up. A group of voters was recently assembled in Ohio following the testimony of...

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September 29, 2019

🎬 Get Out Review – More Than A Political Piece?

By the way there’s no story spoilers in this video I’m literally just talking about the production quality and politics. So let me set the scene, it’s an evening and I’ve gone to the cinema with my girlfriend. We’re going to see Get Out, which is a horror film directed by Jordan Peele of Comedy Central acclaim. He’s in a...

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September 27, 2019

20 Minutes on UnderstandMyself.com

Hi everyone so I’m making an announcement today, and I suppose you might regard it as an advertisement So I’m warning you to begin with because I don’t want you to waste your time if you’re not interested in listening to a description of the newest thing that we’ve created so we Just put up a website called understand myself...

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September 6, 2019

Reddit responds to John McCain’s death

“Hey. Is everything okay?” “It’s just… the Bone Farmer… he died.” “He was that thing that would break into people’s homes and steal their skeletons while they slept, right?” “So sad.” “I mean, obviously: Ideologically, I didn’t agree with him. With regards to skeleton ownership. But his smart lil bowtie!” “You have to admire his tenacity for a cause he...

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September 6, 2019

ITALY: Far right + Far left TOGETHER in a coalition government? – VisualPolitik EN

You might think this is Austria, or Switzerland but what if I told you this is Italy? But… listen carefully. You’d expect for the people there to be speaking Italian, right? Well, in this case you’d be wrong. The main spoken language here is… GERMAN! Of course, this is South Tyrol. Yes, South Tyrol is in Italy, but they speak...

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September 5, 2019

Trump Supporter Shocks CNN

>>DONALD TRUMP CLAIMS HE’D LIKE TO PUSH FORWARD WITH A BIPARTISAN EFFORT ON AN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL AND RECENTLY CNN HOSTED A PANEL TO DISCUSS THIS SO-CALLED LEGISLATION, AND JOHN PHILLIPS, A CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR AND COLUMNIST, HAD AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT TRUMP SHOULD DO MOVING FORWARD ON THIS LEGISLATION. TAKE A LOOK.>>I THINK IT’S ALTRUISTIC FOR HIM TO START OUT...

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August 31, 2019

Postmodernism: History and Diagnosis….

Well, I’m speaking today with Dr. Stephen Hicks, who is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Rockford University in Illinois. Professor Hicks has written a book—he’s written several books—but he’s written one in particular that I wanted to talk to him about today called Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, which was published...

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August 26, 2019

What is the Left Wing and the Right Wing?

Political parties are split up into two broad groups: left wing, and right wing. These terms originally come from 18th century France, where the revolutionaries would sit to the left of the king in parliament, and the monarchists to the right, but in modern times has come to refer to the split between those on the left who seek to...

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