Hartmann Report

The signal was in Biden's speech, but entirely missed by the press. As we stand on the edge of the end of the Reagan Revolution, an end signaled by one particular phrase in President Biden‘s speech last Thursday night (which I’ll get to in a minute), its really important that Americans understand the backstory.

Grifting is all the GOP has to offer anymore. It may well be the end of an era. Ten years ago, Peter Turchin published a provacative piece in Nature predicting we’d see massive political upheaval in 2020, because, he said, politics tends to go in cycles of around between 40 and 60 years, most often 50 years. He essentially predicted we’d see people in the streets last year like we hadn’t seen since the late 1960s, and it turns out he was right.

For some bizarre reason, our media has missed what’s right in front of their faces. While Fox News, rightwing hate radio and Republican politicians have been all over the “canceling” of racist Dr. Seuss drawings (by the family foundation) and Mr. Potatohead (by toymaker Hasbro), they’ve been quite vigorous in pursuing “cancel culture” in other areas.

The world is getting tired of overdressed cranky billionaire families Americans of pretty much every race, class and political persuasion are recoiling in disgust that the British royal family would even seriously discuss refusing to give security protection or a title to Harry's and Megan's son because of concerns about "how dark" his skin might be. Since our country allied with Great Britain in World Wars I and II, Americans have generally held a favorable view of the British Royals. Books, magazines and even TV shows about them are perennial and predictable best-sellers.

Professor Richard Wolff joined the Thom Hartmann Progam to discuss how the Rich make the Poor, Poorer. Here is a transcript of that interview. (with audio)