Lura Forcum on the Power of Independents

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Mike talks with Lura Forcum, president of the Independent Center, an organization that represents people who are fed up with partisan politics and feel politically homeless.

Topics Mike & Lura discuss include:

  • how Lura went from a marketing professor to running the Independent Center
  • true independents vs learners
  • if there are enough independents to make a real difference
  • whether partisan politics is such a bad thing
  • the two-party stranglehold on political power
  • how the Independent Center hopes to change things

Check out Lura’s podcast, We Made This Political

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