Of what to us is the Fourth of July? Reading the room and rethinking democracy.
It's just past the midpoint of an important election year, here in the season of American independence, and around my ears talk has turned to civics! But not in a yay-USA kind of way. Instead I get asked: Is the U.S.
I am also middle-aged and middle-class, a degreed white male property owner, and so I'm supposed to defend America's civic religion because I am among those who created it, who expound it, who are permanently comforted by it. And I know I try often in this space to help lift readers' spirits and assure them that their own democratic labors are meaningful, as is shown by the extreme measures the bad guys exert to stop them.
Is that just a coping skill in the face of societal madness, a way to revolt against the absurd, or is there something essential to the American experiment that makes it impossible to fail? It can help to contemplate what real-life things we expect to happen as America"descends into darkness" and, as always, how we would respond to them. We wouldn't just sit there and wail, would we?
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