"The Post's loss...
Is The Atlantic's gain. Two veteran writers who resigned from The Washington Post over its non-endorsement decision are joining The Atlantic. Robert Kagan and Danielle Allen are both coming aboard as contributing writers."
~ Brian Stelter
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #Trump #EconomicElites #RobertKagan #DanielleAllen #Atlantic
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1730465718791a55b8c6c4bb2/raw
Good response to #Bezos from #DanielleAllen (@dsallentess):
"The idea that this is a decision 'in support of our readers' ability to make up their own minds' is laughable and condescending. In what way does a well-reasoned argument limit anyone else's ability to make up their own minds?…The best support for your reader's ability to make up their own minds is presentation of the best arguments."
(h/t Amanda Katz.)
https://bsky.app/profile/katzish.bsky.social/post/3l7mcp54dcn2b
Since the start of this year, Danielle Allen has been making the case that it’s time to renovate our democracy.
But the very idea presumes several things. These include:
(1) that constitutional democracy is good for human beings;
(2) that we should want to keep and improve the one we’ve got;
(3) that long-term work on the health of our democracy is worthwhile even as we face the near-term stress of a pretty unpalatable upcoming presidential election; and
(4) that change is possible.
Several questions have cropped up repeatedly that touch on those underlying propositions.
Here are some answers to frequently asked questions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/democracy-renovation-faq-danielle-allen/
#DanielleAllen
#supermajority #Mounk #Foa #supermajority #initiatives #fairness #inclusion
For me, the single bleakest data point about the health of our society concerns a difference across generations in that sense of attachment to democracy.
As political scientists Yascha #Mounk and Roberto #Foa have reported in a few different guises, there has been significant 🔸generational decline in 🔸how people value democracy.
In the starkest formulation, made in 2016, roughly 70 percent of Americans in the generation born before World War II consider it very essential, while not quite 30 percent of Americans who are now about 40 and younger do so.
This finding occasioned controversy, but the points about decline of young people’s attachment to democracy are robust.
Among those of us who have not been radicalized, on both sides of the aisle, there is work to do to forge a cross-ideological #supermajority.
First of all, people have to believe such a supermajority is possible.
Happily, the evidence abounds, especially in the results of state ballot #initiatives.
These are decided with cross-ideological supermajorities or near supermajorities voting in favor with surprising frequency.
Here are some examples:
🔹Legalization of recreational marijuana (2020): New Jersey, 67 percent;
🔹legalization of recreational marijuana (2022): Maryland, 67 percent;
🔹legalization of medical marijuana (2020): Mississippi, 74 percent;
🔹restoring voting rights to those who have completed felony conviction (2018): Florida, 65 percent;
🔹new state flag without Confederate emblems (2020): Mississippi, 71 percent;
🔹right to repair in support of small auto shops (2020): Massachusetts, 75 percent.
Look at these decisions and you’ll see American supermajorities voting over and over again for #fairness, #inclusion and the person getting the short end of the stick.
This is not only a ♦️cross-ideological supermajority ♦️in the making; it’s one with good, salt-of-the-earth values.
This potential American supermajority for constitutional democracy is what we need to forge.
No democracy can be stable without a supermajority supporting the basic rules of the game.
Inside the bounds of those rules, we can fight like the dickens over specific policy questions. But the rules themselves require supermajority support for stability.
#Democracy #teetering on #brink #harvardgazette
#DanielleAllen says #ordinary #citizens need to step up, #calls for #formation of cross-ideological #supermajority committed to #revitalizing #system
The GOP breaks apart.
“The inability of Republicans to elect a Speaker is confirmation that the #GOP has effectively dissolved and continues to operate as a party in name only. See Professor #DanielleAllen in #WashingtonPost, Opinion | A functioning democratic system would make #HakeemJeffries speaker.”
#Democrat #Republican #RepublicanCult #housespeaker
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-gop-breaks-apart
The work of democracy is to continuously resist capture. There is no end of history. There is no state of rest for democracy. Democracy is the work of resisting capture by powerful interests and restoring power-sharing just over and over and over again.
-- Danielle Allen, on the Ezra Klein podcast
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-danielle-allen.html
#DanielleAllen #EzraKlein #Democracy #Capture #LiberalDemocracy #TheFightIsForever #NoRestForTheGood #Podcasts
Intersecting stresses from #COVID-19 obscured publication of #Commission-on-the-Practice-of-Democratic-Citizenship ‘s 2020 report #OurCommonPurpose : Co-chair #DanielleAllen kicks-off a year of her #WaPo columns focused on re-launching the report’s action agenda, which she hopes will reboot a #GreatPullingTogether in civic life:
william.maggos
William Lindsey 
petersuber
Chuck Darwin
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Ramzi Nemo