{"id":43374,"date":"2021-03-03T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=43374"},"modified":"2021-03-04T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:37:49","slug":"how-politics-has-grown-more-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/how-politics-has-grown-more-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Valley professor says politics has grown more toxic and divisive in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local professor believes that the lack of civil discourse can lead to the death of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Dart, a political science instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley, spoke with CIVL again on why extremists on both sides of the political spectrum are a danger to our democracy. Dart says that the attack on the Washington Capitol on Jan. 6 was the right-wing version of politics that has been going on in the streets of America throughout the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Dart says that one extreme begets the other, adding that extremists on both sides are the worst representation of both political viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is Ron Dart speaking with CIVL:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local professor believes that the lack of civil discourse can lead to the death of democracy. Ron Dart, a political science instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley, spoke with CIVL again on why extremists on both sides of the political spectrum are a danger to our democracy. Dart says that the attack&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":43378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,225],"tags":[6727,6728,6729,6756,3402],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=43374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}