Williamson’s article “Beyond Red and Blue” outlined the lessons that we as a country need to learn in order to grow and prosper. Williamson started by pointing out that a feeling sense of dissatisfaction\/frustration within our democracy is inevitable and normal. Our democracy is built on a system allows a constant battle to gain power. Therefore, there is always a significant portion of the population without power, fighting to regain it. This means that no one can hold power forever. However, the growing sense of frustration within our gridlock democracy is not normal. Especially with the introduction of technology that interferes with our democracy through forms like election fraud, our democracy has become even more flawed.<\/p>\n
Among Williams seven civic virtues that he deems as most important\u2014awareness, sympathy, critical consciousness, anger, hope\/imagination, humility, and courage\u2014he stresses the importance of fairness. Through the interference of technology, the idea of fair seems like a far away past. I really liked how he uses the analogy of the baseball field to explain the importance of fairness. Baseball serves as an extremely simplified version of democracy because a system of checks and balances is in place with three strikes. When one team strikes out, the \u201cpower\u201d swaps to the other team. In today\u2019s democracy, the power struggle between Republicans and Democrats is highlighting the absence of fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Williamson’s article “Beyond Red and Blue” outlined the lessons that we as a country need to learn in order to grow and prosper. Williamson started…<\/p>\n