the attitude with arnie arnesen, may 6, 2022

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Part one:
Glenn Smith from Houston, Texas, he is an author, activist and political consultant.
We discuss the recent Roe disclosure, and wonder whether this will radicalize the Left. A large majority of Americans support the right to abortion under some circumstances. Many felt that this was a right that was established, and not likely to be eliminated. Now, many see an attack on other established rights coming. Many people have ‘always’ lived with Roe, and did not anticipate the oppression to come. What is next? It will be bad for the economy, along with other challenges already present.
Part 2:
We talk with Harold Meyerson and Bill Curry. Curry is an American lawyer and politician who has been a two-time Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut and a White House advisor in the administration of Bill Clinton.He was head of Freeze Voter, a nuclear freeze group.
Harold Meyerson  Since 2001, Harold Meyerson has been an editor of The American Prospect, the Washington-based liberal magazine, oscillating between the positions of Editor at Large and Executive Editor (his current post).
We talk about how the US compares to other nations regarding rules about abortion. Many nations no longer criminalize abortion, whereas the US seems to be in retrograde. We have minority rule, instead. The minority is imposing its religious beliefs on the rest of the country. It is interesting the Republicans do not want to discuss the issue, but have focused on the leak instead. Republicans are denying that there is a right to privacy because it is “not explicitly in the Constitution”, whereas the Constitution itself is based on privacy as a foundational right. But this event shows that nothing is permanent unless people vote.
We also discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how the Congress authorizes more and more money for the war. However, why is this not coming out of the Pentagon budget? This war has shown that “big, heavily armed” forces will not necessarily prevail in a struggle. Witness the amount of money spent by the US in Afghanistan, vs. money spent by the Taliban.