EPISODE 169

It’s easy to get dragged into a negative head space if you do any kind of politics or movement building work—it’s hard out there and too often we have a tendency to focus on the really bad stuff, like “the planet is burning up and imploding” or a few people own more wealth in the world than hundreds of millions of people. But, truth is—we’ve had a lot of victories that have shifted the conversation.

And it’s important to talk about those victories because they remind us that, yes, change is possible and, yes, it takes a long time—sometimes. So, today, I chat with economist Dean Baker about how progressive ideas have shifted the conversation and won the debate on many economic issues.

And, then, yet another progressive candidate joins the program—you just don’t hear about most of these great progressive candidates on any show but this one. He is Jim Harper and he is running for a seat in Congress from Indiana, a seat a centrist Democrat held for 35 years and, thus, a Democrat should win this one—hopefully, a progressive Democrat.