Summary: KMO welcomes Driftglass, who is the co-host, along with his wife, Blue Gal, of The Professional Left Podcast, to the C-Realm to discuss science fiction and politics. Driftglass provides examples of SF literature from the middle of the 20th Century which were both prescient and dystopian and which stand as counter-examples to David Graeber's claim that the science fiction of that period encouraged people to envision a Utopian future in which technology released the vast majority of the population of the burden of alienated labor. Driftglass unpacks his counter-intuitive assertion that there is no Tea Party and counters the claim, ubiquitous in the corporate media, that the Democrats and Republicans are equally culpable for the sorry state of play in American politics. Music by Lon Milo Duquette.
