Robert Reich Fights Democracy's Bullies -
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Sun, Mar 29 11:30 A.M. NH World (11.3)

The crisis we're in was a long time coming. Now that we're here, what do we do about it? Returning to the show, former Labor Secretary and longtime professor Robert Reich joins Laura Flanders to discuss two bullies tormenting U.S. democracy: concentrated wealth and corporate power. As Reich shares, growing income inequality yields corruption in our politics and economy. No one election will change everything, but that's not a reason not to act, and act quickly to defeat the Trump administration -- in Congress, and at the polls. Reich's latest Substack, "Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?" presents some ideas. Reich's latest book is "Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America". He is also the subject of "The Last Class" about his final semester teaching at UC Berkeley's Goldman School. He's the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers, "Aftershock" and "The System: Who Rigged It and How We Fix It," and is co-founder of Inequality Media. Online, you can find Reich's viral video explainers and his widely-read newsletter on Substack. Join Reich and Flanders as they unpack how economic and political power intersect in American life - and catch Laura's two cents on "democratic capitalism." "If the Republicans who now control Congress say, "'We're not going to give you any role at all, and we are not even going to reassume our constitutional role as Congress,' then I think the Democrats have no choice but to say, 'Forget it. That's it. The only way we bring attention to this crisis is we stop and shut the whole place down.'" - Robert Reich. "More than a century ago, we had the first Gilded Age in the United States . . . We had the equivalent of billionaires, the equivalent of Elon Musk . . . Why would we not have another Progressive Era as a response to the Gilded Age? We are now in the second Gilded Age." - Robert Reich. Guest: Robert Reich: Former Secretary of L

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 224

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