{"id":14301,"date":"2022-06-17T17:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T00:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14301"},"modified":"2022-06-17T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:40:55","slug":"can-our-democracy-survive-all-of-this-bradcast-6172022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14301","title":{"rendered":"Can Our Democracy Survive All of This?: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/17\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_AmericanFlag-distress_061722.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" space=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nicolesandler.com\">NICOLE SANDLER<\/a> pulling fill-in duties again today on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This has been an intense week, with two more hearings from the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to steal the 2020 election. The tsunami of damning evidence and information has been somewhat overwhelming. I&#8217;m feeling more stressed out than I have in a while, and I realize it&#8217;s because all of the memories of not only that day but, frankly, those four years when our entire world was derailed. <\/p>\n<p>Without any medical training (so take it for what it&#8217;s worth), I&#8217;m seeing signs of PTSD as the memories of those years come flooding back. <\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN NICHOLS<\/strong> is National Correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/john-nichols\/\">for <em>The Nation<\/em><\/a>. You already knew who he is, as a fairly regular guest on <i>The BradCast<\/i>. So you may already know why I so enjoy speaking with him, especially at times like this. We started out talking about the J6 hearings, before seguing into a conversation about whether or not we can survive all of this and what it will take to get this country back on track to being a great nation. <\/p>\n<p>So, we get deep and very aspirational. When you&#8217;re dreaming, anything is possible. And when things are as dire as they are now, reaching for unicorns may be the least we should be doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_NicoleSandler_JohnNichols_061722.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s NICOLE SANDLER pulling fill-in duties again today on The BradCast. This has been an intense week, with two more hearings from the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to steal the 2020 election. The tsunami of damning evidence and information has been somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675,299,1590,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradcast","category-democrats","category-insurrection","category-republicans","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}