Nov 9, 2022
By the
time you read this, the polls will have closed, but the election
will not have ended – and our battle for a free and sovereign
United States of America goes on. In this episode, Andrea and Sarah
blow off steam that has accumulated over the very difficult year of
2022, in which we lost our bodily autonomy, contended with a
relentless pandemic, and saw ever more clearly the complicity of
our institutions as the US became the first country in history to
memory-hole a coup and let a career criminal coup plotter run for
office again like a Cosa Nostra Grover Cleveland.
Generally we at Gaslit Nation do not hold back, but
there is a time and a place to fully cut loose, and we decided that
time was immediately after the polls closed – since this is still a
battle between a flawed Democratic party tethered to a Vichy
leadership and a GOP that is an apocalyptic death cult. What the
two parties have in common is that they will blame us, regular
Americans, for everything that goes wrong, while hitting us up for
money and telling us to drop dead. We are fed up – and yet we
refuse to bow down. So listen to our overview of how we got to this
moment, as we rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light! (For
those wondering, we will continue to
rage,
rage,
rage
on Twitter too –
we’re not going anywhere!)
We
were also provided some evergreen advice from Dakota Hall as the
executive director of the Alliance for Youth Action—the first Black
and Indigenous leader of the organization—and former executive
director of the Alliance’s Wisconsin-based affiliate
Leaders
Igniting
Transformation. The
Alliance for Youth Action grows progressive people power across
America by empowering local young people’s organizations to
strengthen our democracy, fix our economy, and correct injustices
through on-the-ground organizing.
For
this week’s bonus episode, available to Patreon subscribers at the
Truth-Teller level and higher, we answer questions submitted from
our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. We will
answer anything so keep sending in your questions! Gaslit Nation is
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