No Confidence examines the simple story Americans are taught about how politics works and why that story is incomplete. It looks at how civics education, corporate news coverage, and Democratic and Republican politicians reinforce the idea that voting and trusting the process are enough. The series is aimed at listeners who have lost confidence in the two major parties and want to understand why. It also helps them think through what to do next.
Episodes
No Confidence 07 - What is a Worker?
No Confidence: "What is a Worker?"Between 2023 and 2025, 916,000 management, business, and finance workers lost jobs they'd held for at least three years. Production workers: 352,000.This episode gives "worker" a definition and puts it to the test. If you stopped working tomorrow, would the money stop? Does anything you own give you a say in whether your job exists?Whose side of the line are you o
No Confidence 06 - The Way We Weren't
The Way We Weren'tWhat if the America we long to return to never existed at all? At least, not in the ways we've imagined.From AI-generated nostalgia to the idealized 1950s, this episode examines the myths behind America's supposed golden age, the economic policies that made middle-class prosperity possible for some, and the racial and economic barriers that kept it out of reach for millions.Today
No Confidence 05 - The Kid's Aren't Alright, Part Two: Who Gets Paid?
No Confidence: "The Kids Aren't Alright, Part Two: Who Gets Paid?"The kids are getting less while somebody's getting more. Since 1975, $79 trillion that would have gone to the bottom 90% went to the top 1% instead. This episode follows the money: who gets paid and who writes the rules? Who owns what we can't live without?Written by No Confidence USA.Narrated by curious0r.Rate it, share it, subscri
No Confidence 04 - The Kids Aren’t Alright Part One: What It Costs
No Confidence: “The Kids Aren’t Alright, Part One”Gen Z has beef. And they know they’re cooked.Young people would be fine if they’d just stop buying coffee, right?. We checked the math, and the logic. Starting pay is barely up, the necessities cost more, and the fees keep multiplying. This episode asks what it costs a generation to be told they’re only imagining their hardship.Written by No Confid
No Confidence 03 - Boxed Populi
No Confidence: "Boxed Populi" America is supposed to be a free marketplace of ideas. But what happens when our dissent gets packaged and monetized? What happens when the algorithm controls what we see and hear? This episode asks who profits from the outrage we're allowed to express, and what it means when "both sides" run on the same platforms, and even the same money. Written by No Confidence USA
No Confidence 02 - The Consent of the Governed
No Confidence: "The Consent of the Governed"We think we know what we're voting for and then surveillance cameras are put up. Data centers are built. Then the organizers who object get branded as the threat. This episode asks what "consent of the governed" really means when there's no effective way to take it back between American elections.Written by No Confidence USA.Narrated by curious0r.Like it
No Confidence 01 - The Illusion of Democracy
This episode, The Illusion of Democracy, is the first in a ten-part part series called No Confidence. In the coming weeks, No Confidence will explore the gaps between what you're told the system is and does and what the system actually is and does, and for whose benefit. Spoiler alert: it's not for yours. Next time, we're taking on how the American system was built to resist democratic change. We'
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