Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio - Various perspectives on the threats to democracy in the US and Vermont, in the aftermath of President Joe Biden's speech in Philadelphia last week.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?522563-1/president-biden-calls-americans-defend-threats-democracy
9:00 - 10:00 am
Paul Burns, director of the non-partisan Vermont Public Interest Research Organization (VPIRG), on threats to democracy here in Vermont, and how national threats affect Vermont.
http://vpirg.org
Ilya Somin brings a national perspective to protecting democracy. He was part of "Team Libertarian" for the National Constitution Center's "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" project, and he has written on voter ignorance and irrational evaluation of evidence.
https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/special-projects/guardrails
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/27/my-new-book-chapter-on-top-down-and-bottom-up-solutions[...]ce/
10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, and more.
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