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Aaron Rodgers and the Left’s COVID problem

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In a sane world, there wouldn’t be any political message. COVID should never have been politicized. Partisans on both sides of the aisle did it, continue to do it — and it’s helping Republicans! Whether one is “woke” on COVID or anything else, do Democrats really think they can win elections by pushing wokeness? A poll this summer found that only a third of American voters consider themselves woke.

The problem is, wokeness is perceived as another form of elitism, and elitism is the Democratic Party’s biggest problem. Democrats have yet to recover from Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables” in 2016. The reek of that elitist remark persists. Continue Reading →

We’re now a call-in program!

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This week, we discuss the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Agreements have been reached on coal, deforestation, and methane. But do they go far enough? What enforcement mechanisms will be put in place? How much of what’s being touted as accomplishments is merely green-washing?

My callers and I tackle these and related questions on this week’s program. Callers range from Jerry Schnoor, a UI professor who has attended all of the previous climate summits, to the notorious “Frank from Des Moines,” a conservative whose perspectives I enjoy but often disagree with. (Spoiler alert: We cue Frank’s entrance into the conversation with Darth Vader’s theme music.) Continue Reading →

How an industry took over a political party that took over the US

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Rosenwald talks about how, early on in his career, Limbaugh was a failure, being fired from one radio stint after another. Limbaugh wasn’t very political. He didn’t bother to vote until his 30s. It will probably surprise you that Rosenwald says, “Limbaugh was so entertaining that he would have been equally successful had he been a liberal.”

Ouch. Opportunity squandered … perhaps. Entertainment (and the advertising revenue it brought in) was Limbaugh’s bottom line. He had no political agenda at first, and often used, even abused, parody.

Once, by way of taking a shot at the Great Peace March (my first foray into social change work!), Limbaugh told his audience that if you play Una Paloma Blanca backwards you’ll hear the voice of the devil. Limbaugh knew he was making it up. Much of his audience believed it. Continue Reading →

Walking to Glasgow for climate

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Rachel Mander is with the Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN). They are walking to Glasgow because the importance of the COP26 summit cannot be overstated. As the world’s most prominent climate scientists laid out recently, we have come to the do-or-die moment. A full-fledged transformation of how we live on planet Earth must happen NOW!

What these young people are doing is important and inspiring. Hopefully, world leaders preparing to gather at Glasgow are paying attention. Nations need to agree to a climate strategy that far outpaces the limited outcomes of the COP21 climate summit in Paris in 2015. Continue Reading →