The Politics Prepping and Paranormal Podcast · Jeff Morey

"Deprogramming Democrats" with Lisa Ekman

·1 hr 12 min·4 clips

Lisa says the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised June 2024 job growth from 150,000 to a loss of 20,000.

1. The Politics Prepping and Paranormal Podcast episode centers on Lisa Ekman's move from Democratic advocacy to Deprogramming Democrats and Uneducating the Elites. 2. Jeff Moore hosts Lisa Ekman, a former Washington, D.C. Democratic lobbyist, and her perspective matters because she worked on disability policy, Social Security, health care, and employment. 3. The episode asks why a longtime Democrat would leave the party and write a book about that shift. 4. Lisa says she worked in D.C. for about 20 years, including at a federal agency, in the U.S. Senate, for nonprofits, and for government contractors. 5. She names Ted Kennedy and Tom Harkin as senators she worked around, and she says she also interned at the Court of Federal Claims while in law school. 6. Lisa says her career gave her a view of D.C. from "inside of pretty much every angle," including lobbying and a small political action committee. 7. She says she stayed away from the "lure of power and money" because her goal was to make the country better for people with disabilities. 8. Lisa says people in Washington are often "threatened, bribed, blackmailed or drunk on their own power," and she ties that to the strength of party machinery. 9. She says the parties have become "two wings of the same bird" that take turns while robbing the treasury and benefiting from insider stock trading. 10. Jeff Moore brings up the scale of waste and asks about leadership, and Lisa points to Senate leaders like Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and John Thune. 11. Lisa says Congress has approval ratings in the teens but an over 90 percent incumbent reelection rate, which she treats as evidence of a broken system. 12. She argues that artificial intelligence will create a "tidal wave" of unemployment and says neither party is giving a serious answer. 13. Lisa says the Democratic Party "did not learn anything from the 2024 election" and instead doubled down on the positions voters rejected. 14. She says the 2028 conversation should start with "kitchen table issues" like the economy, unemployment, and food on the table. 15. Jeff raises tariffs, China, and the middle class, and Lisa replies that the economy has been worse than officials have admitted for a long time. 16. Lisa cites the Bureau of Labor Statistics revision from 150,000 jobs to a loss of 20,000 in June 2024 as an example of economic spin. 17. The tone is argumentative but conversational, with Jeff pushing back and Lisa answering in long, policy-heavy explanations. 18. The format is an interview with a lot of political analysis, election talk, and personal biography. 19. Listeners who follow D.C. power, party politics, and election integrity. 20. Skip if you want light commentary without policy detail or partisan conflict.

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A heated, politics-heavy prepper interview that ties economic grievance to survival talk.

Lisa Ekman's red-pill-to-prepper arc gives the piece its hook, but the review is really about where the conversation keeps drifting: politics, corruption, survival prep, tariffs, government spending, globalization, and the slow grind of manufacturing decline.

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Press play if you want a politics-heavy, prepper-minded conversation with a from-the-left-to-anti-Democrat conversion story.

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