This election has laid bare what has always been true: Americans have limited understanding not simply of American government and polity but more importantly, of what constitutes community. It's a culture of individualism, where a vision of the whole is eclipsed by one's personal situation. I get it that people have struggled with inflat…
This election has laid bare what has always been true: Americans have limited understanding not simply of American government and polity but more importantly, of what constitutes community. It's a culture of individualism, where a vision of the whole is eclipsed by one's personal situation. I get it that people have struggled with inflation. But the tangled issues behind the problem require a modicum of understanding of economics and willingness to think through the issues.
If you get Netflix what you say is borne out in "Join, or Die" a documentary about Robert Putnam and his book "Bowling Alone" and his research into the decline of civil society. (Forgive if you know about or have seen already. I just discovered it recently--- I am often behind the times! But it was quite eye opening and perhaps many of us have been asking the wrong questions?
This election has laid bare what has always been true: Americans have limited understanding not simply of American government and polity but more importantly, of what constitutes community. It's a culture of individualism, where a vision of the whole is eclipsed by one's personal situation. I get it that people have struggled with inflation. But the tangled issues behind the problem require a modicum of understanding of economics and willingness to think through the issues.
If you get Netflix what you say is borne out in "Join, or Die" a documentary about Robert Putnam and his book "Bowling Alone" and his research into the decline of civil society. (Forgive if you know about or have seen already. I just discovered it recently--- I am often behind the times! But it was quite eye opening and perhaps many of us have been asking the wrong questions?