Post by trueblue on Aug 28, 2022 23:52:25 GMT
''You are more powerful than you think.' Why one man says it's too soon to write off democracy in America'
(CNN)"You are more powerful than you think."
That's the title of one of Eric Liu's most popular books, but it's also a theme that runs throughout the work of the author and activist. He's spent much of his life trying to persuade people that "democracy still works, and is worth believing in."
Liu, 54, is CEO and co-founder of Citizen University, a nonprofit group based in Seattle, Washington, that teaches people how to cultivate civic power. He also is an evangelist for democracy, a charismatic writer and speaker whose philosophy could be distilled in this observation from the late historian Howard Zinn: "Democracy is not what governments do; it's what people do."
"I am a Democrat, but I am not a partisan for my party. I am a partisan for democracy," Liu told CNN.