Conscious that some of our unionist brothers and sisters are perhaps not as secure are happy with all of us but generally i think its fair to say that there is no appetite for conflict that is merely mcdonald to us sickle this is the main part of the just said there postelection stall in the Irish Parliament the doyle 450000 people did vote for finnick in this election just come by not many fewer than 15 of all not all that many fewer than should fame and much more than any other party or group of independents in this house and those 450000 people didnt vote against change they voted to say that they were satisfied with some of the changes that have taken place in the past 2 years but they wanted more change in other areas not least in health and housing. Some of them thought they did a good job in the round. And there people who shared our vision and shared our values and agreed with our policies and agreed with our ideas and we will honor that mandate and i hope that others will reco
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Upon individual rights, the conventional and essentially either protecting those rights if you have more libertarian view or making it possible to the full enjoyment of those rights ife you have a more progressive view. Inl either event the purpose of liberalism is to provide liberty and protect liberty, and part of the argument in my book is this very purpose, this in his undermined the very system thatt was brought into being to protect and give rise to. Host we look into that but when it comes to liberal democracy can both democrats, republicans come , progressive, conservatives did all consider themselves to be liberal democrats in the generic sense . Guest yeah. Part of what im cant argue in the book is basically what we think of as the span of our political spectrum is basically occupied by right leaning liberals and leftleaning liberals, or has been until very recent times. What we have seen in the west is largely a debate within the frame of liberalism. We are entering an age w
Pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew but also to have cspan with us this evening. We are also Live Streaming this on the udc facebook page. For those of you who want to find it later, you can go to our page, i think. We are going to upload it on youtube, as that correct . So, again, i am sharon pratt, the founding director of the institute of politics, policy, housed aty, which is the university of the district of columbia. We were launched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the history of this country. Because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. While we have topics of contemporary interest, we always try to drill down on
Conscious that some of our unionist brothers and sisters are perhaps not as secure or happy with all of us but generally i think its fair to say that there is no appetite for conflict that is merely mcdonald to us sickle this is the theme in partially to set their postelection stall in the Irish Parliament the doyle 450000 people did vote for finnick in this election just come by not many fewer than 15 of all not all that many fewer than should fame and much more than any other party or group of independents in this house and those 450000 people didnt vote against change they voted to say that they were satisfied with some of the changes that have taken place in the past 2 years what they wanted more change in other areas not least in health and housing some of them thought they did a good job in the round. And there people who shared our vision and shared our values and agreed with our policies and agreed with our ideas and we will honor that mandate and i hope that others will recogn