Citizenship is a community act. Democracy gets its power from the people.

The shrinking of people participating in that process over time has landed us in a more polarized space.

This is How to Be a Citizen from Pantsy Politics. Over four episodes we talk about how to vote, how to debate,

how to think about our relationship to our government and our communities.

We think about what America and 2020 should be and what we should be to America.

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This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pantsy Politics, the home of Grace-filled political conversations.

Welcome back to Pantsy Politics and the final episode of our summer series How to Be a Citizen.

We have gone broad and talked about the philosophy and the relationship between the government and the government.

We have gone narrow and talked about how to register to vote, how to pick your new sources.

And the question we're asking in this final episode is where do we go from here?

I think a really good place to start and where we go from here is with our friends Cynthia Tarell from Represent Women.

She talked with us about some big picture structural reforms that would allow our government to be more representative of the government, Sarah was mentioning.

And what I really appreciated is that she began that conversation by talking to us about our rich history in the United States of addressing a structural challenge with a structural solution.

The United States has a really rich history of addressing structural challenges to our norms and our practices with structural solutions.

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