Wednesday, January 5, 2022 By naming this newsletter “The Mess We've Made,” I run the risk of sounding like nothing more than a crabby old man, and thus a cliché: Gramps, venting because things ain’t like they used to be. Well, I can't escape it, I am a crabby old man and I am venting. But I'm not complaining about the disappearance of CD players or of the Oxford comma or about baseball caps worn backwards. I'm complaining about the erosion of democracy, and in that respect I’m joining a chorus. More fundamentally, I’m worried that Americans seem to have given up on the idea that we have a right to good, corruption-free government. I stay awake at night fretting that my countrymen no longer believe that we can reform and reshape our laws. We seem resigned to the fact that money and power are highly concentrated, that there are rulers, and that the vast majority of us are simply ruled.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 By naming this newsletter “The Mess We've Made,” I run the risk of sounding like nothing more than a crabby old man, and thus a cliché: Gramps, venting because things ain’t like they used to be. Well, I can't escape it, I am a crabby old man and I am venting. But I'm not complaining about the disappearance of CD players or of the Oxford comma or about baseball caps worn backwards. I'm complaining about the erosion of democracy, and in that respect I’m joining a chorus. More fundamentally, I’m worried that Americans seem to have given up on the idea that we have a right to good, corruption-free government. I stay awake at night fretting that my countrymen no longer believe that we can reform and reshape our laws. We seem resigned to the fact that money and power are highly concentrated, that there are rulers, and that the vast majority of us are simply ruled.