This is a story about America, an America that, even today, exists largely beyond the serious attention of mainstream politics and news media. Rather, these institutions ignore or marginalize the story’s deeper significance, at a great cost to the country. In other words, the story is not about the usual things that are said to have caused the crisis in American democracy: policy gridlock, electoral fraud, political corruption, even insurrection. Nor is it about the competition between the ideologies of capitalism and socialism, nor the various threats to democracy, such as autocracy, plutocracy and kleptocracy.
The story offers a different perspective on politics, based on different evidence, from that offered by most political analysis. It draws on people’s profound disquiet about life in America, and on the existential challenges America faces, both physical and social. This condition is also true, to differing degrees, of other liberal democracies and beyond.
In 2013 I collaborated in a survey that investigated the perceived probability of future threats to humanity in four Western […]
The worst problem we face in the USA is inequality! The second and related problem is climate change.
Come on Rev, give me a break! The worst problem that America faces is: “We forgot God!” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn Inequality? Climate change? Can U bB that far off the mark???? Read Kenneth below; he is closer to the target!
I am sorry Dale. I just lost my wife last year and now am on welfare, so I seem to think like every other person who has lost everything and is trying to find a way to just hold on and pay my bills. I did let it get personal; yet not incorrect.
Wonderful.
I have for a few years been talking about the danger of reconstructionist Christianity in America. This article clearly supports what I’ve been saying. Those who are preparing for the end times have no interest in actually making this country or the world better, safer, healthier. Reconstuctionists are incredibly selfish, thinking only of their personal salvation, which is to be validated by following what they consider to be there law of God, which incidentally includes the limitation of federal power.