This is episode 101 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast. We are going to talk about contentious issues.
What do you think about?
- Control over our own bodies in reproductive choices.
- Federal funding for women's healthcare clinics.
- A national healthcare system.
- Responses to public health emergencies.
- Governmental food or housing subsidies.
- A cleaner environment and clean renewable energy sources.
- Vaccines.
- The teaching of race, gender, sexuality, and the "hard" history of the United States in schools.
- "Controversial" books.
- Government funding of public and school libraries.
- National progressive movements such as Black Lives Matter.
- Firearms safety legislation.
- Bilingual education programs.
- Free public higher education and suspension of student debt.
- Marriage equality.
- Non-binary conceptualizations of gender.
- Pronouns.
- Separation of church and state.
- Religious exemptions to laws.
- Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
- Consumer protections.
- Labor unions and collective bargaining.
- A guaranteed federal minimum living wage.
- Workers' rights.
- Regulations on unfettered capitalism.
- Authority of the federal government over the states.
- Engaging in world affairs.
- Authoritarian dictators.
- Aid to Ukraine.
- Limits on fossil fuel emissions.
- Firearms regulations.
- Black and brown immigrants.
- Police reform and accountability.
- Public safety net programs.
- Reductions in prescription drug prices.
- Voting rights and gerrymandering.
- Trust in the electorate to make informed decisions.
- Equitable and fair tax policies.
- Narrowing the massive income and wealth gaps.
- Supporting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- Regulations on business and industry.
- Prosecution of Capitol insurrectionists.
- Accountability.
- The notion of "woke".
- The Constitution of the United States of America.
- Democracy.
