A More - or less - Perfect Union... what matters most to Americans as elections approach
Take heed, candidates for office and all Americans debating their vote in November: Here we are once more eyeing an election that could chart the course of American democracy going forward. And as we have since the momentous 2016 and 2022 elections, CITIZENARTS’ newest episode in the A More - or less - Perfect Union series, A More - or less - Perfect Union 2024, shows us just how much ‘We the People’ continue to have some pressing issues on our minds. This fourth episode of the podcast series tells a story of stunning and continuing change in America’s thinking and attitudes over the last eight years. For the third time – 2016, 2022, now 2024 – we’ve gathered a cross-section of Americans for a national conversation, bringing together many original participants from the documentary film and prior episodes – also welcoming some new voices. In A More – or less – Perfect Union 2024, we present another in-depth, substantive exploration of some of the issues and events that may matter most to Americans as the election approaches. Is what divides us more entrenched? Is there hope for common ground? Some topics remain priority topics from the past two elections – reproductive rights, climate change. But in 2024, our panelists centered on what was working for them and what wasn’t, including inflation, immigration policy, candidates’ age, how race and gender, and criminal indictments, will impact voters, and more -- reflective of how the US has evolved and where people’s priorities lie. What remains constant is this: the margins in 2024 are close, underscoring the reality that every single vote truly matters. Americans need to vote; Americans better vote.
Episodes
They're back! As we close in on the 2024 election, we've once again brought together "We the People," voices from around the country - some familiar, some new - for a discussion that digs into the USA's fast-evolving political, cultural and social drama in a different way.
Neither a focus group nor poll about political preferences; it’s more a national town hall. An in-depth, substantive exploratio...
Here’s CITIZENARTS founder Jim Gabbe with a word on our newest podcast series, IN THEIR WORDS: What public officials do for us. In interviews with key local and federal “public servants,” we shed light on how their work may be often little understood but has an immediate, direct impact on our daily lives.
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More about IN THEIR WORDS: What public officials do for us, including links to download, can be found at https://ww...
Is America truly a paragon of democracy? Russia’s Putin and President Xi of China, among many others – including some in the U.S. - don’t think so. And should America’s foreign policy be shaped by competition between liberal democracy and autocratic rulers?
These are two key questions explored in this third and final episode when our nationwide forum composed of a cross section of the over 200 Americans from the original d...
A condensed audio version of the documentary that came out of our nationwide exploration just prior to the 2016 elections in which we sought answers to a most distressing question: were Americans as angrily and hopelessly divided as was being reported by the media?
At its heart are the voices of over 200 citizens we interviewed - left and right, young and old, rural and urban; black, brown yellow, white; straight, LGBTQIA...
In this episode, a cross section of the 200 or so Americans who spoke out in Episode One appear in a nationwide, online forum, discussing and debating the past six years of escalating political, social and cultural turmoil in the US.
They bring focus, passion and engagement to hot-button issues in ways reminiscent of the 1960s. Women’s rights, race, economic equity, educational fairness…as well as climate change and gun sa...
CITIZENARTS’s Founder Jim Gabbe provides a brief overview of the series – from the cautious, but nearly unanimous and obvious optimism of a swath of Americans in the runup to the 2016 elections to the growing skepticism and cynicism of today. Restlessness that, in the great American tradition, has the potential to lead to major change.
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