Friday, October 18, 2013

U.S. POLITICS - Dangers of Polarized Politics

"Exploring the dangers of polarized politics for American governance" PBS Newshour 10/17/2013

(aka Dangers of Our-Way-Or-No-Way Politics)

Excerpt

GWEN IFILL (Newshour):  As Washington continues to move almost breathlessly from crisis to crisis, it seems like a good time to take a step back and examine the political history and philosophies that bring us to the brink again and again.

Jeffrey Brown has that.

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour):  And in those larger terms, just what is it that we're witnessing today in American politics?  And what impact does it have on citizens?

Author Eric Liu looks at these questions as founder of Citizen University, which seeks to engage people on progressive issues.  He served as an adviser to former President Bill Clinton.  Steven Hayward is a visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  And historian Beverly Gage of Yale University joins us once again.  She studies political movements in U.S. history.


NOTE THIS COMMENT FROM ERIC LIU, Citizen University:  ....even as the Republican Party figures out what it wants to be when it grows up....

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