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Democracy Forum 3/17/23: If Small States Rule, Why Are They So Angry? WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
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Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine The mostly volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes: Martha Dickinson, Michael Fisher Starr Gilmartin, Maggie Harling, Lisa Leaverton, Ann Luther, Judith Lyles, Rick Lyles, Wendilee O’Brien, Maryann Ogonowski, emerita, Lane Sturtevant, Leah Taylor Linda Washburn Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics This month: If Small States Rule, Why Are They So Angry? Does this small-state bias in the federal government equate to overrepresentation of rural interests? Does it translate to policies that help rural areas thrive? Are communities in small or rural states actually thriving? Do people in those communities feel like they’re thriving? Or does “rural resentment” account for minority rule at the federal level? Senators from small states hold outsize sway in government to the point where they can block measures that the majority of Americans want. How are they using that power? What does it mean for Maine? Guest/s: Amy Fried, John Mitchell Nickerson Professor or Political Science, UMaine Michael Podhorzer, Chairman of the Board of the Analyst Institute; Assistant to the President for Strategic Research at the AFL-CIO To learn more about this topic: Paul Ryan Says Even MAGA Diehards Believe Trump Can’t Win in 2024 – The New York Times, March, 2023 Most Rural States 2023 | World Population Review The Resentment Fueling the Republican Party Is Not Coming From the Suburbs – The New York Times, January, 2023 Rural Americans aren’t included in inflation figures – and for them, the cost of living may be rising faster | The Conversation, January, 2023 Opinion | Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage? | The New York Times, January 2023 Opinion | How to fix American democracy during a ‘Great Pulling Apart’ – The Washington Post, January, 2023 Opinion | This Is How Red States Silence Blue Cities. And Democracy |The New York Times
Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine The mostly volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes: Martha Dickinson, Michael Fisher Starr Gilmartin, Maggie Harling, Lisa Leaverton, Ann Luther, Judith Lyles, Rick Lyles, Wendilee O’Brien, Maryann Ogonowski, emerita, Lane Sturtevant, Leah Taylor Linda Washburn Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics This month: If Small States Rule, Why Are They So Angry? Does this small-state bias in the federal government equate to overrepresentation of rural interests? Does it translate to policies that help rural areas thrive? Are communities in small or rural states actually thriving? Do people in those communities feel like they’re thriving? Or does “rural resentment” account for minority rule at the federal level? Senators from small states hold outsize sway in government to the point where they can block measures that the majority of Americans want. How are they using that power? What does it mean for Maine? Guest/s: Amy Fried, John Mitchell Nickerson Professor or Political Science, UMaine Michael Podhorzer, Chairman of the Board of the Analyst Institute; Assistant to the President for Strategic Research at the AFL-CIO To learn more about this topic: Paul Ryan Says Even MAGA Diehards Believe Trump Can’t Win in 2024 – The New York Times, March, 2023 Most Rural States 2023 | World Population Review The Resentment Fueling the Republican Party Is Not Coming From the Suburbs – The New York Times, January, 2023 Rural Americans aren’t included in inflation figures – and for them, the cost of living may be rising faster | The Conversation, January, 2023 Opinion | Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage? | The New York Times, January 2023 Opinion | How to fix American democracy during a ‘Great Pulling Apart’ – The Washington Post, January, 2023 Opinion | This Is How Red States Silence Blue Cities. And Democracy |The New York Times
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