104: Democracy is the Foundation of Individual Freedom
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Comedian and Host of LPTV’s “We're Speaking”, Maya May to answer questions asked by YOU, the members of the Lincoln Project community. Listeners ask about how to frame the importance of defending democracy to those who’ve lost interest in the issue, what to make of Mitch McConnell’s recent troubling comments regarding race, will Dan Bongino’s banning from YouTube make a difference, how do we politically activate Gen Z, and so much more. Plus, is the solution to gerrymandering…“sleeper-agent voters”?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host, Reed Galen. |
| 0:12.1 | Today, I'm happy to welcome back to the show, The Inemitable, The One and Only, Maya |
| 0:16.8 | May. |
| 0:17.8 | Comedian and host of LPTVs, we're speaking. |
| 0:20.6 | Maya, welcome back. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey Reed, thanks for having me. |
| 0:24.1 | So Maya and I are teaming up again to take questions from you all, our listeners and fellow |
| 0:27.9 | members of the Lincoln Project community. |
| 0:29.8 | We've taken these questions from social media platforms, emails, you've sent us, questions |
| 0:34.2 | we got at town halls, and remember as always, anytime you ask a question you could hear |
| 0:38.5 | it on a show like this. |
| 0:40.4 | So Maya, let's get into it. |
| 0:42.2 | Our first question today comes from Helen Lynn Tallah. |
| 0:46.0 | She says, in the University town of Kent, Ohio, we attended a January 6th pro-democracy |
| 0:51.5 | vigil. |
| 0:52.6 | Simply put, there were zero young people in attendance out of a crowd of approximately |
| 0:56.5 | 100. |
| 0:57.7 | It can be done and what are the solutions to get young people motivated to be part of |
| 1:01.6 | the political process? |
| 1:03.2 | Well Maya, you spend a lot of time on college campuses, I want to get your opinion, but |
| 1:06.7 | I think there's one sort of disappointing thing is that it was in Kent, Ohio, Kent State, |
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