Judy Woodruff discusses political division in America | Alaska Insight
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- There’s no question that America is deeply politically divided, but what does this division mean for the future of our country? Longtime PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff has been traveling the country talking to Americans in the lead up to the next Presidential election to explore the causes and effects of intense political division. Woodruff was in Alaska recently to report on the state’s open primary system and ranked choice voting and she joins host Lori Townsend to discuss her series on this Alaska Insight.
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Thank you for an interesting talk. I've always enjoyed & respect Judy Woodruff! 🫡
Great research, by Judy Woodruff et all. Former Alaska resident in 1972, it was a wild ride even then to be in a state where if you did not stop to pick up a hitchhiker, you could be breaking the law. In a effort to create laws which would save the lives of Alaskans, we all put down our differences and shoulder-to-shoulder worked to survive the winters together. The only reason we left the state...my feet were never warm enough and we missed the sunshine in the winter. 😎
Great comment, I moved to Terlingua, Tx where cold is not a problem 10 months out of the year! It was 103 yesterday!
Thanks for this great interview. I'm looking forward to hearing her reporting about Alaska's ranked choice voting system.
Great interview/talk. Love Judy Woodruff.
Judy Woodruff is a class act.
Except that she only reports small tidbits. Another reason why America is divided. And I though conservative reporting was biased.
Yeah, she is.
Hah! Know whatcha mean!
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Wonderful to see judy! I miss your on pbs here in minnisota.
How wonderful if Alaska, with its diversity of tribes and peoples, were to emerge as a becon of hope--a living testament to how a nation can coexist harmoniously where the inhabitants hold fast to differing viewpoints yet by their interactions they acknowledge each other’s inherent dignity. Please visit us again soon, Judy!
Sty away from Idaho. We don't want your pro-greater Idaho crap.
Love Judy!!!
We deserve whatever we get Together as private citizens and work out something like this conference which is brilliant. In talking to politicians and corporations need us to be divided in order to make money and to ensure their own elections and positions. It is this.I believe that is fracturing our population.Because we are told to stay away from each other.
Approved by the iconoclastic bastards club and the bourbon republican party. PBS news hour represents the highest level of journalism. And the heart and mind of the informed American citizen. Never underestimate the power of knowledge and high minded ethos. That's why we are here.
If Eastern Oregon doesn’t like the rules and laws that the majority of Oregonians vote in, they’re welcome to move to Idaho. It sounds like they be happier there anyway.
Very interesting. Even Geoff and Amna will be watchin'. #PBSNEWS #PBSLife
Judy's current work is profoundly important. Young folks should listen to a balanced perspective. Understand better the pov of the people that think "differently" than your own pov. David Brooks is following in her strong and honorable footsteps.
All I can say on this interview as a gun owner and an Idaho resident is that Judy should keep this up and we will be more divided. Why can't journalists report all the news rather than bias tidbits. But conservatives want a Civil War in America and Judy can help make that possible. I was so frustrated with this especially the Idaho part that I couldn't finish it.
+1 for Justice
Part of gun safety is knowing an individual or a group who safely operates the gun as a tool . Meanwhile having the required applicable wisdom of maturity.
Militia, gang, police squad etc etc.
I myself don't like guns.
I write in my local paper letters to the editor a lot how we need background checks and other controls and I'm a gun owner, but I think we have way too much gun culture in this country. A lot of it comes because very few Americans knowing the history of the Second Amendment, and few non-gun owners don't realize that the NRA was taken over by radicals in the 1980's changing the emphasis on hunting and safety to assault rifles and buying more ammo. I can talk to pro-gunners better than many because I have taken tactical firearms training, practice at my home gun range in the state of Idaho and am an independent voter.
I read a book I ordered on Amazon called "Loaded" which tells the history of the Second Amendment and it isn't what you are told. There is a lot out there that comes from the pro-gun crowd that you aren't being told and they aren't told either. Trump said to his VP, Pence, at a congressional committee meeting that, "We should take the guns without due process because the courts are too slow." I learned about this meeting in a gun magazine. Pro-gunners have been told that liberals want their guns and want a shooting civil war in this country. I visit those online sites and can comment because I am a gun owner. Most of the hate and the gun push is from the South. Here in the mountain west, guns are for practice and shooting predators, and home defense, but not preparing for Civil War against the democrats.
Judy hasn't been asking difficult questions in the last 15 years.
Oregonians, stay in Oregon and don't try to force your politics on us in Idaho.
What is wrong with asking rural Idaho their opinion? Rural Idaho has no representation in this issue. Is that any better than what urban oregon is doing?
I feel like Judy poo-pooed the TN situation a bit, so let me spell it out... Republican state leadership in TN is beholden to extreme positions, because that's what right wing media and (by proxy) their politics, relies on to scare their audience/base into line and keep them engaged. It also largely preaches a "me fist", "everyone else is crazy" contempt sermon at every opportunity... So we're surprised by the polarization? Lol. Republican state leadership, especially in deep red states, has shown that they don't actually care about representing the moderates in their states. That's why they don't show up. The GOP only cares about extremism and outrage, that's their new brand, and the sooner we can admit that the better. When your leaders don't show up, it's time to break rank and vote them out.
I also live in TN and am totally disgusted by the politics in our state. I live in Memphis, and the crime is awful. Our newscasts are like a crime report every night. Democrats do not get a chance to speak in our legislature, and our Governor is just a talking head who talks all day without saying anything of significance.
I think you're failing to get Judy's point about the division of two worlds.
Absolutely! Make your vote stand for the wonderful mosaic that is ALL OF OUR America 🇺🇲
Ultimately there is no desire to compromise - it isn't that it wouldn't be ideal, but it simply isn't possible. I live in Atlanta, and I'd love to secede from this horrible state - the state government is beholden to rural Republicans, and doesn't care one iota about folks in the City. Ultimately, at all levels we need more districts so that we can be more granular as to what the citizenry actually believes, and make gerrymandering far more difficult.
Further, in TN, there was no acknowledgement that supporting school shootings is the policy that TN citizens WANT. They are getting exactly the policy they want.
My state is beholden to the government in our little town of half a million people and we get little representation and those Oregonians want to join us and give more power to that city and the state government. We don't want to join with Oregon, but we have no say and Judy doesn't report that. Why is Judy afraid to talk to us?
¡Dr Woodruff is the goat!
Why on earth call this a politically divided moment? The word moment suggests that change back to whatever existed before might come quickly.
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So disappointed in Judy. Just what I expected from PBS. This was a superficial look into the political divide. Barely a mention of money in politics, only a brief mention of the NRA. No mention of the colossal inequality in this country, now even greater than the Gilded Age which (big surprise) breeds anger and resentment. Take a box of cookies into a kindergarten class and give one to each child. Everyone will be content. Then give one child 20 cookies. Everyone goes after that child and takes the cookies by force. Guess what feelings are the easiest to exploit by those who simply want power. Division is the goal of such people. Good discussion of the open primary reform.
I agree, what was discussed is superficial overlook of the division. However she is still researching and interviewing putting out this series. Traditional journalists report the data, and that's why this has a superficial feeling, cause that's all she is doing. She has drawn some minor conclusions about general feelings of "living in two worlds" with different "values." I have no idea if she plans to make any more substantive conclusions and conclusions. Maybe she will once she is done, but she may have to start forming her own beliefs first. You can't right a book/thesis without an opinion first, and she is not quite there, if ever.
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You need to look up the conservative 900+page blueprint, Project 2025 and learn what conservatives are really doing in this country. I don't see understanding in these comments.
@@user-sk7zc1fc5u So is part of the plan to give Kennedy support as the spoiler to ensure Trump's victory in November?
Isn't it time for Judy Woodruff to retire. Seriously. Think about it. We point out and complain when a politician hangs on, and on, and on......because they can't stand to give up the power. Hell, Feinstein died in office! Woodruff is 77 years old and she can't bear the thought of giving up the spotlight and power....just like a politician!
Just like anyone with a voice and a passion for what they're doing. Chuck Grassley (90), Mitch McConnell (82), Jim Risch (80), and the list goes on. Take their keys away if you can, but recognize others may be allowing them to keep their jobs because they see value in their experience and contribution. Death comes for us all soon enough, JS, as Feinstein would no doubt agree.
Should have retired a decade ago.