Questioning Democracy
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea
Democracy is one of those rubbery words. We kinda know what it means. But do we really? It’s voting and elections, but it’s much, much more than that. Democracy has inspired The Velvet Revolution and the Arab Spring. It encouraged the Suffragists and the Civil Rights Movement. It stirred the hearts of men like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. But it seems in many ways we still don’t know what democracy means. Truly means.
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Whose democracy is it? Who gets to participate and who gets left out? Political influence is bought and sold these days and more and more Americans are opting out. How do we deal with the tensions of Democracy? In this program we hear answers from poets and theologians, jazz musicians and exiled dictators.
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