I mean, I know we Americans don't agree on things, but we all, well, most of us agree we

should settle our differences through democratic means, right?

Yeah, well.

Hey everybody, it's John Bewin.

So it's the middle of January 2021, a week after the right wing white supremacist reactionary

assault on the U.S. Capitol, an attempt incited by the sitting president to reverse the results

of an election that he lost by force.

January 6 was disastrous but came close to being much worse.

It's probably not over.

There's no telling how much more violence there might be in the coming days, months, years.

Those of us who want to defend the very partial democracy that we have in this country and

to remake it into something more robust and healthy and just, we've got work to do.

Chandra and I have talked over the last few days about doing a bonus episode.

We agreed that the most important things we have to say about this moment, well, we've

already said them.

On season four from 2020, especially, our previous seasons on this show, seasons two and three,

seeing white on white supremacy and the men's series on patriarchy with Celeste Headley,

they have a lot of insights too for people trying to make sense of what's happening.

So if you haven't or maybe even if you have listened to season four, the land that never

has been yet, it's an exploration of U.S. history and this country's relationship to democracy.

It's not the history most of us got in our textbooks or from our mainstream culture.

And one unmistakable lesson is that the blatant rejection of democracy and American politics

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