Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret Audiobook by Emily Van Duyn

15/02/2022 9h 30min
Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret Audiobook by Emily Van Duyn

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ID: 563326

Title: Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret

Author: Emily Van Duyn

Narrator: Sarah Welborn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:36

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Current Affairs, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

In Democracy Lives in Darkness, Emily Van Duyn discovers and follows a secret political organization of progressive women in a conservative community in rural Texas. Its members met in secret to protect themselves from retaliation by their conservative neighbors, friends, and family. They discussed immigrant rights, women's reproductive rights, racism, and intolerance of those of different racial/ethnic and cultural backgrounds in their community. Democracy Lives in Darkness is about this group: their daily lives, their choices, and ultimately, their incubation. But it is also about what led them to meet in secret-the political prejudice and hostility that marginalizes and makes people afraid, and the growing political, social, and geographic cleavages that now make even mainstream dissent dangerous.

Van Duyn asks why mainstream partisans feel the need to hide their political beliefs from others, why they feel afraid of those from the opposite party, how they stay politically engaged in secret, and how this can transform them and their communities. Van Duyn challenges the assumption that the United States is a liberal democracy where ideas can be expressed freely and publicly. Rather, she suggests that democracy in the United States may exist in darkness, but, more optimistically, that it uses this darkness to move forward.

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