The last few years have shown just how utterly dysfunctional society is and how that’s reflected in our politics. Now, in the past week, that has been emphasized by an inability to have anything approaching actual conversations about power and the myriad crises we face.
This society was built on a fault line in a flood zone. The aging foundation is crumbling. Rebuilding will inevitably fail until we address the underlying issues—which would be massively expensive, difficult, and time consuming.