The endangered state of American politics.
Political analysts, scholars and close observers of government are
explicitly raising the possibility that the polarized American electoral
system has come to the point at which a return to traditional
democratic norms will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)