'BradCast' 11/4/2022 (Guest: Alan Minsky of Progressive Democrats of America on saving democracy)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 As we have covered extensively, the critical 2022 midterm elections next Tuesday, November 8, could be the last fully free and fair elections in America. The last jobs report released before next week's elections shows a robust economy with strong jobs growth that is slowing slightly due to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to combat inflation. But the corporate media's sole focus on temporary inflation has failed to inform voters about the pernicious threat to democracy itself in the midterm elections, with survival of American democracy quite literally on the line in the 2022 elections and the 2024 Presidential election. Hundreds of Republican election deniers are running for key offices across the country and openly plotting to engineer the GOP into permanent minority rule by subverting free and fair elections.\\xa0 But many progressive voters don't appear to fully grasp the stakes or the historic nature of this moment and the need to push back against authoritarianism.\\xa0 ALAN MINSKY, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America and a longtime Bernie Sanders supporter, explains why he believes no person of conscience can sit out this midterm election. Minsky warns that reactionary Republicans are now 'emboldened to take down American democracy in their efforts to create a permanent ruling party,' and makes the progressive case for voting for the (decidedly imperfect) Democratic Party to preserve both democracy and the economy. If young voters turn out in similar numbers to 2018 and 2020, then 'we can change this country for the better. But we have to preserve our democracy to leave that opportunity open,' Minsky says. 'We have to preserve democracy now and strengthen it. Let's win this thing.'"