84: A Message Of Hope with Eric Liu

Jen Rubin's Green Room

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4.8 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jen is joined this week by Eric Liu, they discuss the pain and disillusionment many feel towards politics and how Citizen University aims to empower individuals to take active roles in their communities. He emphasizes the importance of understanding local power dynamics, fostering civic character, and creating spaces for connection through programs like Civic Saturdays. Liu also reflects on the significance of immigrant stories and the upcoming 250th anniversary of America as opportunities for civic engagement and reflection.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room. If you're like me, you've been rather
0:15.6	down on the American people since the election. They don't pay attention to the news.
0:22.3	They're uninformed.
0:24.4	They voted to put into power an insurrectionist, a liar, a thief.
0:32.4	Are they lost?
0:34.7	Is there any kind of way we can restore an intelligent, democratic populace
0:42.7	that is actually going to care about democracy that's going to care about the truth?
0:49.1	I mean, you're absolutely entitled to be despondent at some point.
0:54.4	If people don't want to inform themselves, if they consciously choose to get their news from Elon Musk or from some weird podcast, what hope do we have as democracy?
1:07.1	Isn't part of a democracy?
1:09.2	Really, all of a democracy dependent upon an educated, conscientious
1:14.1	citizenry? Well, if you're like me, you have probably thought, you know, these people need to go
1:22.0	to citizenship school. You know what? There is a citizenship school. Our guest today, Eric Liu, had had a brilliant idea, and that is to revive citizenship. He has created something called Citizens University, and he is spreading the gospel of citizenship throughout the country. And isn't that what we need? We need people to get out of their
1:47.4	little cobbyholes, to get off the couch, to get into their communities, to start thinking of
1:53.0	something bigger than their own self-interest. And I'm interested to see what success he has.
2:00.0	I'm interested to find out what are the kind of people
2:02.7	that are joining this movement and whether this is one way we come back from the disastrous
2:10.3	election. So I'm thrilled to have Eric. Eric, welcome to the show. Well, so great to be here, Jen.
2:17.4	You know, as I was telling the show. Well, so great to be here, Jen.
2:24.0	You know, as I was telling the audience, many of us have kind of sort of given up on the American people.
2:26.5	We're kind of disgusted with the election results.
2:38.8	But you are the eternal optimist and have a plan to draw people out of their ideological tailspin and give them something that's bigger than themselves to be excited about and interested about. So tell us about
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