PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Trusting Obama is Worse Than Fearing Trump – Here’s Why” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮

The horrific treatment of protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline is just one of the failings of the Obama administration. He also made permanent the Bush era tax cuts, tortured whistleblowers and removed habeus corpus, among others. The trust liberals still have in him are why he’s gotten away with such abuses.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cornel West on Keith Lamont Scott Case: Yet Again An Officer Gets Away With Killing a Black Man”/ Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮

In Charlotte, North Carolina, people took to the streets Wednesday night to protest the announcement that police officer Brentley Vinson will not face charges for fatally shooting African American father Keith Lamont Scott. We talk to Dr. Cornel West about the Keith Lamont Scott case and the national issue of police brutality.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Cornel West: Unlike Bernie Sanders, I’m Not Convinced the Democratic Party Can Be Reformed” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton, some progressives are now pushing a shake up of the Democratic Party’s leadership in efforts to reform the party. But Dr. Cornel West says the Democratic Party can’t be reformed. During the Democratic primary, West endorsed Bernie Sanders. Sanders later picked him to serve on the Democratic platform committee. After Hillary Clinton won the nomination, West made headlines when he endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.