What do lovers of a democracy do when they share a country with people who are explicitly anti-democratic? How does a divided people build a government based on compromise when they won’t even listen to each other. Today, we put questions like these to Vermont State Representative, Mike Mrowicki.

Mike shares his hopeful take on democracy, lessons learned from his service, stories of a fascist radio priests from the 1930s, and wisdom from Ireland’s history of the Troubles.