" A massive transfer of power from the people to Big Money, aided by Supreme Court justices willing to sweep away precedent and contort the Constitution to bolster the power of the corporate system;
" The deliberate sabotage of the government for political advantage by the opposition party, which refuses to do the people's business in a determined campaign to obstruct the president, resulting in the least productive Congresses of modern times;
" The crippling of the nation's ability to respond to the greatest challenge humankind has ever faced -- climate disruption -- by those who refuse to heed the most urgent warnings ever issued by the scientific community.
All these unprecedented and degraded political developments are manifestations of the same coherent, destructive force damaging the nation.
Yet much of the press on which our citizens rely for their understanding of events, has hardly noted how extraordinary and dangerous these times are. The unprecedented has been treated as normal, the scandalous as acceptable.
It was not always thus in America. Our nation was once a beacon to the world, and could be again -- but only if we can recognize, understand, and reverse the shift in the balance between the constructive and destructive forces at work in our nation.
(These ideas are developed in depth in my new book, WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST: The Destructive Force at Work in Our World--and How We Can Defeat It.)
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