Let me make my case, however minimally, based on five areas in
which at least the faint outlines of that new system seem to be
emerging: political campaigns and elections; the privatization of
Washington through the marriage of the corporation and the state; the
de-legitimization of our traditional system of governance; the
empowerment of the national security state as an untouchable fourth
branch of government; and the demobilization of "we the people."
Whatever this may add up to, it seems to be based, at
least in part, on the increasing concentration of wealth and power in a
new plutocratic class and in that ever-expanding national security
state. Certainly, something out of the ordinary is underway, and yet its
birth pangs, while widely reported, are generally categorized as
aspects of an exceedingly familiar American system somewhat in disarray.
which at least the faint outlines of that new system seem to be
emerging: political campaigns and elections; the privatization of
Washington through the marriage of the corporation and the state; the
de-legitimization of our traditional system of governance; the
empowerment of the national security state as an untouchable fourth
branch of government; and the demobilization of "we the people."
Whatever this may add up to, it seems to be based, at
least in part, on the increasing concentration of wealth and power in a
new plutocratic class and in that ever-expanding national security
state. Certainly, something out of the ordinary is underway, and yet its
birth pangs, while widely reported, are generally categorized as
aspects of an exceedingly familiar American system somewhat in disarray.
