Good statement! Our problems are numerous, including a lack of focus and clarity. There is also a startling lack of courage. Where are our political leaders who are standing up to the dangers and calling them out for what they are, even at the cost of their jobs?
Thanks for your thoughtful article. These are scary times, indeed, and we need to prevent more threats to our democracy. I follow your articles with great and continuing interest.
Thanks for picking up on this impending democracy disaster. CNN is covering this aspect but insufficiently. Morning Joe covered it also. A Philadelphia Ethical Society FB friend, Stan Horowitz, alerted me to Netflix "Don't Look Up." An all star cast appear in a broad farce about Americans ignoring an impending end-of-the-world comet scenario in favor of rock star dramas and other silliness. That seems to be what is happening about which "Atlantic" gets credit for its continuing alert about our political future unless we Americans wake up.
Thanks, Marvin. I saw "Don't Look Up." I took it as a satire on the lack of political will to sufficiently rein in climate destruction. But I conclude that one could interpret it as the suicidal tendency to look away from any serious disaster, even, or especially, when the consequences are devastating.
After synthesizing Gellman’s essay with the prior month’s Atlantic cover story, “The Bad Guys Are Winning,” by historian Anne Applebaum, it took awhile to catch my breath. I think we are suffering from — and are possibly doomed by — an immeasurably large void in good governance. It has been filled by very bad politics. Our government is barely functioning, stripped and demoralized under Trump. And many intended leaders from Tony Blinken to Christopher Wray seem otherwise occupied. Like people, a nation is what it focuses on, and our vision is blurred — very blurred.
Good statement! Our problems are numerous, including a lack of focus and clarity. There is also a startling lack of courage. Where are our political leaders who are standing up to the dangers and calling them out for what they are, even at the cost of their jobs?
Thanks for your thoughtful article. These are scary times, indeed, and we need to prevent more threats to our democracy. I follow your articles with great and continuing interest.
Many thanks, Jean. Your interest is most highly appreciated!
This was a brilliant statement of our peril both political and in our climate. I want to know what I can do to make our future less disastrous.
Thanks for picking up on this impending democracy disaster. CNN is covering this aspect but insufficiently. Morning Joe covered it also. A Philadelphia Ethical Society FB friend, Stan Horowitz, alerted me to Netflix "Don't Look Up." An all star cast appear in a broad farce about Americans ignoring an impending end-of-the-world comet scenario in favor of rock star dramas and other silliness. That seems to be what is happening about which "Atlantic" gets credit for its continuing alert about our political future unless we Americans wake up.
Thanks, Marvin. I saw "Don't Look Up." I took it as a satire on the lack of political will to sufficiently rein in climate destruction. But I conclude that one could interpret it as the suicidal tendency to look away from any serious disaster, even, or especially, when the consequences are devastating.
After synthesizing Gellman’s essay with the prior month’s Atlantic cover story, “The Bad Guys Are Winning,” by historian Anne Applebaum, it took awhile to catch my breath. I think we are suffering from — and are possibly doomed by — an immeasurably large void in good governance. It has been filled by very bad politics. Our government is barely functioning, stripped and demoralized under Trump. And many intended leaders from Tony Blinken to Christopher Wray seem otherwise occupied. Like people, a nation is what it focuses on, and our vision is blurred — very blurred.
Yes. I find the absence of countervailing leadership willing to call out the dangers we confront to be very ominous and almost beyond belief.