And that is why we will not ever get out of this. We will not be able to save our country. Citizens don't want what is right--- they want what will make them feel safe and secure. But democracy is unstable by nature. Democracy requires hard work, compromise, understanding and agreeing on facts, and the desire to see a politics where the …
And that is why we will not ever get out of this. We will not be able to save our country. Citizens don't want what is right--- they want what will make them feel safe and secure. But democracy is unstable by nature. Democracy requires hard work, compromise, understanding and agreeing on facts, and the desire to see a politics where the greatest good for the greatest number of fellow citizens is held as an ideal.
Americans are tired of all the work democracy requires and so are ready to run to right wing or left wing authoritarians of one sort of another.
Right now it looks like the right wing authoritarians are winning because of the structural imbalances built into the Constitution. When the Constitution can no longer hold the country together because it has become the instrument of dividing the country then there is no way the "United States" can remain united.
And that is why we will not ever get out of this. We will not be able to save our country. Citizens don't want what is right--- they want what will make them feel safe and secure. But democracy is unstable by nature. Democracy requires hard work, compromise, understanding and agreeing on facts, and the desire to see a politics where the greatest good for the greatest number of fellow citizens is held as an ideal.
Americans are tired of all the work democracy requires and so are ready to run to right wing or left wing authoritarians of one sort of another.
Right now it looks like the right wing authoritarians are winning because of the structural imbalances built into the Constitution. When the Constitution can no longer hold the country together because it has become the instrument of dividing the country then there is no way the "United States" can remain united.