Cesar Chavez, Reckoning, and Democratic Backsliding
Plus the latest writing from the Convocation team.
On this episode we talk about the recent bombshell story from the New York Times, “Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years.” We note that these stories of men abusing women and children cut across ideology and reflect a broader brokenness in our culture. But we note that one thing that matters always: how institutions react when these kinds of credible, corroborated allegations come to light. Do they take them seriously or protect the powerful men at the top. We also talk about the new Varieties of Democracy (full V-Dem report here) that shows the massive decline in the United States as a liberal democracy over the past year under the Trump administration, which has by these metrics wiped out 60 years of democratic progress. Finally, we talk about the Republican push to pass the so-called SAVE Act, whose draconian voter identification measures would dramatically restrict the ability especially of women to vote.
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Great SAVE discussion. I've been posting about this for months. The degree of misinformation floating around about this in newsmax-land is distressing.
Great show today, despite the topics! Diana thank you for the tip on Illustrated Ministry! Great website and resources. Many thanks to all for today.