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Scene on Radio: Capitalism

BONUS EPISODE: Election 2020

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.911K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What does the 2020 election in the United States tell us, or remind us, about the state of democracy in America? A follow-up to our Season 4 series on democracy, The Land That Never Has Been Yet. Host and producer John Biewen talks with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Editor, Loretta Williams. Music by Algiers, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

Photo: An election day march to the polls in Graham, North Carolina, November 2020. Photo by Anthony Crider, Wikimedia Commons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, change. Hey, John. You know, I'm not sure exactly where to start, but how about with this?

0:08.3

That it's a good thing it wasn't just people who look like me out here voting

0:13.0

well

0:14.8

Yeah, you know like not just

0:19.4

I mean, but I'm glad you voted though, you know like and I'm also glad a whole bunch of black and brown folks went out and voted

0:26.7

Sometimes standing in really long lines and Detroit, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Latino and Native folks in Arizona and

0:35.6

Of course here in the greatest city in the world where great things happen for the Delphi

0:42.6

So we're recording this conversation in the back half of November

0:47.0

At least on the day we're recording this we still have a president

0:51.5

Who's publicly refusing to accept the result of an election he lost

0:55.2

Though reportedly behind the scenes he's making plans for his post presidency

1:01.6

Trump and his people have made a

1:04.3

Pathetic and deeply shameful attempt at a coup that probably won't succeed

1:09.7

But it has been a spectacle to behold

1:13.7

who I mean, but you know, it's not really a surprise right like no one who was watched Trump all this time

1:21.2

Thought he would ever admit to having lost fair and square and even before the election right?

1:26.8

I mean you could see all the signs. He said it would only be legitimate if he won

1:32.1

And so but but I think the real problem is that most elected members of this party and

1:38.3

Like millions of other people have now joined Trump in this alternate reality and are actually still trying to work to make it come true

1:46.7

Right, this will not go down as a high point for what Americans like to call the world's greatest democracy

1:54.1

Nah, but we always have the four seasons total landscaping press conference though. Yes to look back on fondly

2:03.6

Of course a lot of

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