7: Bull Moose

1912 was a really important year. For Progressives, it was the year that a century-long agenda was formalized as the party platform of the Bull Moose Party. It served as something of a checklist of legislative achievements that we’re still working through today. And the man that spearheaded this new agenda and a new (albeit short lived) political party? Theodore Roosevelt. What are some of the progressive victories Teddy never lived to see? What has yet to be accomplished? If TR were alive today, what are some new progressive ideas he might champion? In this episode, we discuss anarchists, World War I, an automatic minimum wage, free energy, WEED, paid family leave, and Eddie calls Nick a hippie. This is Robot F. Kennedy. SHOW NOTES: Jason Kander’s tweet: https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/854327448137334785 “2017 isn't about Trump. It's about regular people standing up to Trump. This is the birth of a new progressive era in American history.” Progressive Party Platform of 1912: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/progressive-platform-of-1912/ “Theodore Roosevelt is every boy’s favorite president.” —Dan Carlin. Sick burn. Hardcore History 49 – The American Peril: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-49-the-american-peril/ Vox.com | “The referendum that just brought Turkey closer to one-man rule, explained” http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/17/15320350/turkey-referendum-vote-erdogan-explained Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech http://origin.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism Alaska Minimum Wage Increase, Ballot Measure 3 (2014) https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Minimum_Wage_Increase,_Ballot_Measure_3_(2014) The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2oFKnPp Recency Bias http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/Recency_bias The beginning of a new progressive platform (aka Teddy Roosevelt: 2020) • Automatic Minimum Wage • Universal Mental Healthcare • Constitutional Right to Vote • Universal Pre-K • One Year of Paid Family Leave • An Era of Welcoming Immigrants • A 35 Hour Work Week • Right to Data, including National Broadband Infrastructure project, and intellectual property ownership of all products of a human person (intellectual and biological) • Right to Free, Clean Energy • Universal Drug Decriminalization • Free College Education • Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices