E15: E15: Phil Labonte from All That Remains on how to solve the red state vs. blue state culture wars

Will the divide between red and blue America ever close? Could changing the Constitution using Article V provide a path? Rock band frontman Phil Labonte joins us to talk about the possibilities and a little about his music. ---- Content of This Episode ---- 00:00​​​​​ Episode Start 00:10 Dreaming of a red-blue divorce in America 02:10 Holy Cow! It’s Phil Labonte of All That Remains 03:25 Phil flees Taxachusetts 08:00 Federalism. Good or bad? 13:00 Time for an Article V Convention of the states? 18:30 What progressive want to change about the constitution 25:30 Misunderstanding Phil’s music 27:50 The left dominates music and culture 28:00 Has Punk Rock gone woke? 31:45 The critics really hate Phil 33:00 Will we ever rein in Big Tech? 37:00 Common Carrier laws 40:00 Hooray for LGBT families! 42:00 Follow James Lindsay’s New Discourses on Youtube ---- Reading List ---- The Progressive case for an Article V convention (Jurist) https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2018/12/roy-ulrich-progressive-convention/ History of secession movements in the US (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904195380/break-it-up-examines-the-history-of-secession-movements-in-the-u-s 8 Secession movements in US history (Mental Floss) https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/19862/8-secessionist-movements-american-history Review of David French’s ‘Divided we Fall’ (NY Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/books/review/divided-we-fall-david-french.html Disgruntled Oregonians in five counties vote in favor of joining Idaho. What’s next? (Idaho Statesman) https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article251530708.html The Hidden Threat to our Constitution (American Constitution Society) https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/the-hidden-threat-to-our-constitution/ Phil Labonte archive on Metalsucks https://www.metalsucks.net/tag/phil-labonte/ ---- Plugs for our guests ---- Follow Phil Labonte on Twitter: https://twitter.com/philthatremains Follow Brad Polumbo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brad_polumbo