January 18 - The Bernie Sanders Revolution: Defeat Organized Money With Organized People; Martin Luther King Jr. as a True Revolutionary

We begin with an assessment of last night’s Democratic presidential debate and analyze the Bernie Sanders phenomenon and his call for a revolution to defeat organized money with organized people. Joining us is Jedediah Purdy, a Professor of Law at Duke University and the author of “A Tolerable Anarchy”. He has an article at The Huffington Post “Bernie is Not the New Barry – And That’s a Good Thing” which we discuss. In the article Jedediah Purdy makes the case that Senator Sanders is running on ideas and policies and not charisma, and that although he could win the presidency, if he loses his ideas and policies will live on and come back to the political mainstream some years or a decade or so later as Barry Goldwater’s did following his defeat by LBJ in the form of Ronald Reagan’s victory running on on Goldwater’s anti-government platform, 16 years later.

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Then on this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we speak with the leading African American scholar and intellectual Dr. Obery Hendricks who is a Senior Fellow for Faith and Opportunity at The Opportunity Agenda, a Visiting Scholar in Religion and African American Studies at Columbia University and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. He is the author of “The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic” and has an article at Salon.com “The Macro Ethics of Martin Luther King Jr.” and an article at The Huffington Post “Martin Luther King and Immigrant’s Rights” and we will discuss both articles and how, although Martin Luther King was attacked by both the right and the left during his short life, he takes his place in history along with Jesus Christ as a true revolutionary who, quoting MLK, “chose to give my life for those who have been left out…This is the way I’m going. If it means suffering a little bit, I’m going that way…If it means dying for them, I’m going that way.”