Mutant Socialists Strike Back - Another Bad Leftist Conversation with David Moscrop and Jeff Wheeldon

The Mutant Socialists are back. We’re here to dig deeper into how we became bad leftists, David’s home, power, and appliance troubles, what it means to be mutant socialist, and what this has to do with living in a world on fire right now. In fact, here’s a quote from something David said near the tail end of our conversation that struck me like a bolt of lightning as I was editing what you’re about hear:We’re sort of on a knife’s edge. We don’t know what’s going to happen in Greenland. We don’t know what’s going to happen in the United States, whether that country gets torn apart by civil war or other sorts of conflicts—that’s happened before. People think of the United States and think it could never happen, but everything that can happen has and will happen in the United States. We go back through American history. These things that seem so extraordinary and impossible to us now are just written on page after page. - David MoscropWe recorded this episode on January 29, 2026. So David’s reflections appear to be prophetic. Anything that can happen in the United States will happen, including joining forces with Israel to attack Iran.And what will happen next?I ask that question with a fair amount of fear. At the same time, I’m grateful that there are people like Jeff and David in the world to talk to, to make me feel less alone, and to have hope—despite all the dread-inducing things going on in our world—that there actually is something we—them, you, and I—can do that changes the world around us for the better.I hope this conversation offers you a similar hope.BiosDavid's Book: Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones: https://gooselane.com/products/too-dumb-for-democracyDavid's Substack: www.davidmoscrop.comDavid's Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davidmoscrop.comDavid's Twitter: @David_MoscropJeff's Substack: https://substack.com/@jeffwheeldonJeff's blog: https://jeffwheeldon.ca/blog/Jeff's publications: https://sociologyandchristianity.org/index.php/jsc/article/view/281