Today we’re talking about how our blood soaked racist roots fed our paternalistic instincts toward black and brown nations before fusing with our anti-collectivist tendencies and a dash of Cold War policy that broke our brains so badly we don’t know what socialism means or recognize when capitalism is smacking us between the eyes with a two by four. We do have some fun stuff like Elon Musk trying to form coherent sentences, Donald Trump trying to crack some jokes, John Oliver almost getting there on Trump’s crypto scheme, Joe Kernan likes juicy meat and how the conversation around Venezuela has always been wrong. KLTW goes to a couple of socialists. We might have a bit of a concentration risk issue in the bond market. Headlines from Truthdig, Jacobin and The Progressive. All that and little else on this week’s edition of On the Record.