When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
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The State of America and the Brexit Debacle - ft Thom Daly
🕑 Added 2023-06-03 14:25:30 +0000 UTC[PATRONS]
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In this special episode, Thom Daly joins me to rant about the state of education in America, how Republican ideologues ban what they don't understand, how misinformation and scaremongering replaced proper political discourse, and whether he has much hope that it will actually improve.
I then discuss Brexit, explaining what it means, the different types of trade arrangements, how this affects Northern Ireland and why it has me so irate as I watch the situation deteriorate. Was Brexit worth it, or just a massive con which was kept vague from the beginning? After listening in, I'm sure you'll see where I stand.
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Comments
Alan Telford
The effect of Brexit on NI has me fuming too, Zack. Good Friday kind of sorted out the situation in NI. I remember all the violence in the troubles so why did we put all the progress of Good Friday at risk for the nebulous benefits of Brexit? Totally understand Irish people being angry with the U.K. I remember having a conversation with a friend about NI during the run up to the 2016 vote, he really could not understand where the problem was even though I explained it several times.
Brian Pritzl
Myopic is probably the wrong word Zack - it really is more like a scotoma. I don't agree with much of the Team Red politics and suppression of books or certain aspects of history (although many of those are targeted towards elementary education which tempers my concern.) Team Blue does indeed suppress discussion and history but their suppression is in postsecondary education and is more institutional than political and gets no fanfare in our politicized media (CNN chief had to step down this week in part for his clumsy attempt to bring the outlet back to the political center). I really do feel we are approaching the same hyper partisan environment of the Byzantine Greens and Blues (I would be a White in this analogy) and we know how that turned out. Because so few people make any attempt to understand and accommodate the other (rather they demean and/or vilify) things are likely to continue getting worse. The fact that our two candidates for 2024 are likely going to be Trump and Biden horrifies me. Our politics are like those of a third world nation. Sad..... I will give the episode another try..
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
That's a pity Brian. What do you mean by myopic? I just don't see how restricting the curriculum to avoid 'sensitive' subjects can be anything but a bad thing, especially when it excludes certain segments of society from accessing histories more relevant to them. You're more than welcome to check out of course, but if you listen further I think you'd see that it's one side in particular that is imposing these restrictions. Thom would never suggest that the D's are perfect, but on the R side...yikes!
Brian Pritzl
Disappointed. Had to stop after ~10 minutes. Thom seemed to my ear to be as myopic as those he was criticizing. There are serious issues with intellectual honesty and rational discussion and biased news outlets in America (hell in most of the world) and they appear to be getting worse -- but it isn't a one party problem -- it is both major parties and their blind followers that are perpetuating this problem. Educated people can still be biased and have blind spots. This episode was further proof. If I want partisan rants I can turn on the "news".
