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S40E3: Bella! This Woman's Place Is in the House | Clip

Defining what’s missing in our democracy

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In 1975, Bella Abzug went on the “Dinah!” show and questioned what was missing in our democracy at the time. “Maybe we have wars instead of peace, because a whole part of the people are not involved in deciding what should happen to all of the people,” said Abzug.

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(audience clapping) - We're beginning to examine, what is our democracy?

What are our origins?

And as we examine it, we have to say, "Hey, there's something wrong," and maybe we have inflation, maybe we have recession, maybe we have wars instead of peace, because a whole part of the people are not involved in deciding what should happen to all of the people.

(upbeat 50s music) In the fifties, after the war, there was this whole cocoon approach to living, that one could withdraw into one's prosperity of having children, materialism, of having a happy life, and women were in the home, largely.

(inspirational music)