American Democracy: We Have Misread the Signs of the Coming Storm
Maintaining a vibrant democracy in the United States requires recognition that exceptionalism does not make us invulnerable to autocratic impulses of our past.
Maintaining a vibrant democracy in the United States requires recognition that exceptionalism does not make us invulnerable to autocratic impulses of our past.
It boggles the mind that the US, which was instrumental in defeating Nazi Germany, is fomenting an ideology derived from the worst of German racist thinking.
Politicians possess a Freudian unconscious meticulously programmed by their party’s ideology and propaganda.
In view of so many imperfections manifested throughout its history, America looks less like the “shining city on a hill” than a shadowy ghetto of hypocrisy.