National

This month's show is a follow up to the last show on "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority." The title is taken from Alexis de Tocqueville's famous examination of American Democracy. He saw the future threat to modern democracy comming more from subtle "soft despotism" than from an obvious tyranny. In his opinion, Europe had already caught this disease and he sought the cure in American Democracy. If we had paid more attention to his warning, we would not be so surprised by our current "crisis".

Judge Ben Joseph hosts. Bishop Jethro James from New Jersey Senior Pastor of Paradise Baptist Church, serves as the New Jersey State Director of Social Action is chairperson of appropriations committee of FEMA, Community Advisor to the State of New Jersey Office of Homeland Security, and was appointed by the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey to serve a member of the Attorney Legal Ethics Committee, along with a host of other affiliations. Edwin Baker LICSW of Morrisville VT - an addiction and substance abuse counselor, Dr. Catherine Antley member of the Vermont Medical Society of Burlington, Pharmacologist Judith Margulies from Massachusetts, and a statement read from prevention specialist of Maine Scott Gagnon who is the Director of Operations at AdCare Educational Institute of Maine (a SAMHSA funded organization through PTTC) and serves as the public health representative on Maine’s new Marijuana Advisory Commission.

Host Sandy Baird sits down with colleagues Kurt Mehta, Marc Estrin, Pete Garritano, and Ian Stokes to talk about the current regime changes taking place throughout the world.

The title is taken from a book by Martin Gurri. This episode deals with the phenomenon behind why a certain segment of the public is sticking behind Donald despite the mounting evidence of corruption surrounding his administration. It then focuses on the question of Liberal Democracy's survival.

"All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet." --Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

"We are in an open war between publics with passionate and untutored interests and elites who believe they have the right to guide those publics. Gurri asks the essential question: can liberal representative democracy survive the rise of the publics?" --Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, Professor of Politics and Human Rights at Bard College.