Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life’s Post

The Founding Fathers never intended to include people like them in representative governance. In that way, the framers of democracy punched above their moral weight. Now, racially diverse leaders are breathing life and justice into principles that have been mere words until this point. The generosity of their vision is pushing the nation to deliver on the ideals that are enshrined in its foundational documents but have yet to be realized.

No debate about it. We need to reimagine our democracy. Host Angela Glover Blackwell speaks with Baratunde Thurston about her thoughts on #voting. Watch the full video on the PolicyLink LinkedIn page here: https://lnkd.in/gnXKqsBM

Hope is not fanciful thinking or sitting around wishing for something better. The discipline of hope has you doing the research to understand the history and how we got here. It has you gathering the data to understand the problems. It has you finding examples of what works, and the people who are making a difference, and then stepping into your role in the struggle. Hope is cultivated through the work of transforming a vision of a fair, just society into real-world results.

We don’t know what the future holds for the growth of a radically inclusive #MultiracialDemocracy but the questions we raise in this series are more than just thought experiments. 2024 is an important election year for many countries all over the world and we ask you, dear listener, how are you participating in democracy in your own life? https://lnkd.in/gjRt6BjR