Sean talks with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy about the crisis lurking beneath America's political dysfunction. Murphy’s new book “Crisis of the Common Good” argues that the country is suffering fr
I would describe it less as 'spirituality', but I do very much agree that we need to focus on people's non-economic needs.
Secular values and the inherent nihilism of the universe shouldn't mean that we don't care about meaning. If anything, the lack of God in our logic should create more space to focus on people, their communities, and their needs. If there is no higher power or inherent meaning to anything, then who else do we have but each other?
You're not spending time with people on the left if you think the right is doing better on pointing to how average people feel about things, you're with people (barely) center left. Look at grassroots candidates all over the country who are winning because they are connecting with the lived reality of people.
Honestly if you think it's both sides are to blame because both of them back the same system an system that steals time from people you have to work 70 hours a week just to make a basic living I would think if people would have got some of that time back you would see spirituality and the arts add community
My home country of Québec is a rich developed place, but we are less wealthy and MUCH less religious than the United States. We are also happier and live longer.
Sports bring ALL people together, truly. And its the only one that does it without boundaries or restrictions or second thoughts. We're becoming tribal, and the answer isn't to make more tribes
The Democratic party base is split into change-oriented Progressives and pro-institutionalist Moderates/Centrists. Progressives have defined public issues and resolutions for a good twenty years now, and Moderates have not defined issues or proposed resolutions for about forty years now.
These guys are moderates who don't understand the broad Progressive movement and can't admit how successful it has been over the last two decades.
In fact, this podcast is exactly what I would script, if I were a moderate who is trying to take over the Democratic Party from its Progressive base.
People only feel liberalism has pitted them against each other is because they want to be allowed to believe in their 3000 year old magic spell book in spite of reality and the real tangible harm it’s causing people in modernity.
A strong stable common good capitalism doesn't exist because the private ownership of businesses is what is what capitalism definitionally is and that creates an unstable, undemocratic, oligarchy over time that will undermine democracy and regulations. We had regulations and protections and they were undermined, why should we repeat the same mistakes?
We need worker/community ownership of businesses instead (especially large ones, small/family businesses could just be highly regulated). We could also consider inheritance taxes (why should expropriated wealth be passed on to the next generation). That would ensure our economy is aligned with the rest of society and is run democratically instead of it undermining our democracy to satisfy our oligarchy.
We need democratic socialism to end the oligarchy that is killing our democracy. There is no reason necessities should be out of reach for anyone in our country.
Hey remember, there is no evidence to support the claims that any god exists. People are finally realizing it’s a cult and we’re being played by billionaires. Religion was always a way to control the masses.
The sooner we stop allowing our spiritual core to be used as a vehicle of greed and conflict, the sooner we can find more common ground through it, rather than around it.
There is no “spiritual crisis”. It’s a reality crisis. All religions have been thoroughly debunked for over a hundred years now. It’s growing pains. The rest of humanity is struggling as they are stuck between two realities. Modernity and the biblical age. Until humanity grows up and embraces atheism and materialism, nothing will be fixed and will only continue to worse so long as we let people with Bronze Age delusions have their hands on the levers of power.
It’s not the Left nor the Rights job to fix spirituality. That’s a personal matter between the individual and who they believe is the Higher Power. Their job is to support the working class of America and to end oligarchies and corruption.
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Secular values and the inherent nihilism of the universe shouldn't mean that we don't care about meaning. If anything, the lack of God in our logic should create more space to focus on people, their communities, and their needs. If there is no higher power or inherent meaning to anything, then who else do we have but each other?
These guys are moderates who don't understand the broad Progressive movement and can't admit how successful it has been over the last two decades.
In fact, this podcast is exactly what I would script, if I were a moderate who is trying to take over the Democratic Party from its Progressive base.
We need worker/community ownership of businesses instead (especially large ones, small/family businesses could just be highly regulated). We could also consider inheritance taxes (why should expropriated wealth be passed on to the next generation). That would ensure our economy is aligned with the rest of society and is run democratically instead of it undermining our democracy to satisfy our oligarchy.
We need democratic socialism to end the oligarchy that is killing our democracy. There is no reason necessities should be out of reach for anyone in our country.
More education.