How to Strengthen Our Democracy? “Common Purpose” Says Danielle Allen | Amanpour and Company
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- Amid the winner-take-all ruthlessness of American politics, Harvard professor Danielle Allen makes the case for unity. Allen is director of Harvard’s Center for Ethics and is spearheading its COVID-19 response initiative. She tells Walter Isaacson why rampant factionalism is a major roadblock to governance.
Originally aired on October 20, 2020.
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An outstanding interview! Let's accept the challenges discussed by Professor Allen. America, we can do better! Please vote!
Good interview on an important subject. The professor did not mention disproportionately high corporate power and its influence on politicians and having media driven almost solely by commercial considerations.
If you've never been thirsty, you don't know what water is. If you've never had your freedoms taken away, you don't know what freedom is.
Thank you both for educating us with such grace.
The victories that were won 20 years ago were accomplished by people at ground zero, at that time they did not require formal education because they were children of the great migration. Now there is a need for the work of the educated to go toe to toe with passing favorable issues on behalf of the service workers. Hence we see the closing of schools, defunding education, and degradation of K-12 educators. and all the neighborhood destruction. So don't say others are depending on the system's leaders, we lost our leaders to money-love because we all know that many have never had the monetary stability to fight for themselves on all fronts.
Excellent interview.
This was a great interview!
The reason why there's a reduction of Participation in our Political system, is because we know that our Political system has become polarized and more importantly dysfunctional. What we need from academia, is an insistence on Reforms to our antiquated Political system. Rather than just pick a Political Tribe, (Republican vs Democrat) learn to recite their Political narratives that come from the Consultant Class and the Cable News Networks and then go out into your community and do battle.
I appreciate Allen’s resolve and focus on our values but I feel like her solution amounts to “if everybody would just get along the world would be a better place.” I think that cliche is very true but how do you get there? As a political scientist, I expected her to discuss of ways to redesign the rules of American politics so polarization would be discouraged instead of rewarded.
Yes, Allen is definitely not a Political Reformer. But you'll be glad to know there are people like me who have Reform ideas to Greatly diminish not just Political Polarization, but political dysfunction and too much money in Politics. 😊