{"id":19034,"date":"2022-03-03T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/?post_type=weekly_update&p=19034"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:35:25","slug":"9-democrats-9-republicans","status":"publish","type":"weekly_update","link":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/weekly_update\/9-democrats-9-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Democrats & 9 Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Instead of Raging Over \u2018Maus,\u2019 Support Local People Who Are Fighting the Ban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you see this short piece on the banning of Maus in Tennessee? It’s worth a quick read. The author is outraged but struggling with how to productively engage in her local community. She notes first and foremost that “Plenty of people in East Tennessee are livid over a school board\u2019s decision to remove \u201cMaus\u201d from the language arts curriculum. But indiscriminate outrage on TV and social media isn\u2019t helping the local dissenters who are trying to build a better way forward.\u201d\u00a0Read the full story by clicking here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

9 Democrats, 9 Republicans Introduce Legislation to Reduce Polarization and Support Community Bridgebuilding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bill Would Create Non-Partisan Pilot Program Within AmeriCorps to Support Community Civic Bridgebuilding, Build Relationships Across Lines of Difference<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington, DC \u2013 Today, nine Republicans and nine Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the\u00a0Building Civic Bridges Act\u00a0<\/em>– bipartisan legislation to empower communities to tackle sources of division while assisting local civic and community organizations with ongoing efforts to address contentious issues and ultimately, bridge divides.<\/p>\n

According to an NBC News poll conducted in January 2022, 70 percent of Americans agree with the statement that \u201cAmerica has become so polarized that it can no longer solve the major issues facing the country \u2014 and that those differences will only continue to grow\u201d \u2013 up from 45 percent in 2010. The increase in polarization is prompting serious doubts about whether American democracy is under threat. That same NBC News poll showed that 76 percent of Americans \u2014 including 7 in 10 Democrats, Republicans, and independents \u2014 \u201cbelieve there is a threat to democracy and majority rule in this country.\u201d\u00a0Read on…<\/a><\/p>\n

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  Instead of Raging Over \u2018Maus,\u2019 Support Local People Who Are Fighting the Ban Did you see this short piece on the banning of Maus in Tennessee? It’s worth a quick read. The author is outraged but struggling with how to productively engage in her local community. She notes first and foremost that “Plenty of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-19034","weekly_update","type-weekly_update","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/weekly_update\/19034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/weekly_update"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/weekly_update"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}