Very Mindful, Very Demure? A Close Look at Third Parties
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In our second conversation about third parties in the 2024 election, we take a look back at successful third-party candidates and the impact they had on our nation's politics. We discuss Ross Perot, Jill Stein, and what makes third parties so alluring with scholar Tammy Greer, a public policy expert from Georgia State University.
Thank you to our partners at Third Way for making this mini season of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics possible. Third Way is a center-left think tank and the driving force for high-impact ideas and advocacy campaigns that can unite the vast American middle to build political power and deliver solutions. Learn more about our research on third parties in 2024 at www.thirdway.org/thirdparty.
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us and making this season possible. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get your podcast. But Ashanti, here's the thing. We don't always agree with ourselves 100% of the time, right? |
| 1:04.0 | We change our minds. We shift perspective depending on who's around us, what perspective |
| 1:10.1 | they're adding to the conversation. |
| 1:12.2 | Did we think of that item? And more often than not, we didn't. And so then our view on an issue |
| 1:18.9 | changes. So why is it we want the grace for ourselves, yet we don't give that grace to someone |
| 1:26.3 | running for office. |
| 1:27.7 | Oh, speak on it. Speak on it. |
| 1:31.4 | Hey, brown girls. I'm Ashanti. This is the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. And that's Dr. Tammy Greer. |
| 1:37.7 | She's a public policy expert and a professor at Georgia State University. Tammy teaches people |
| 1:43.0 | how our government really works. I'm thrilled |
| 1:45.7 | to continue our conversation about the role of third party candidates in U.S. elections. |
| 1:51.2 | Today we're discussing the lofty American ideal of compromise, the role third party candidates |
| 1:56.6 | play in presidential elections, and what's at stake this year. Here to talk to us about all of this |
| 2:02.3 | is Tammy. Tammy, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. So first, |
| 2:09.6 | tell us a little bit about yourself and how did you get into this? What made you really care so much |
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