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“Humanity erected a global cyber castle but forgot to build the gate.”
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“The two-party system amplifies and exacerbates polarization by pitting two juggernauts (Democrats and Republicans) against each other in a bitter, all-consuming rivalry—and gerrymandering, closed primaries, and the Electoral College compound the problem.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“A big part of why America isn’t working is because far too many Americans neither know nor care how it’s supposed to work.”
― How America Works... and Why it Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System
― How America Works... and Why it Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System
“Ginsburg was an American hero who broadened legal rights and protections for all Americans as both an advocate and a judge. She will rightfully retain a special place in the long history of American law.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Obama’s presidency deeply unsettled and angered millions of Americans not ready for a Black president.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Malcom X was even less subtle: “You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Today, critics bemoan how these checks and balances cause the federal government to move slowly.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“The fewer tribes there are, the worse tribalism gets. And in America the two political tribes battle each other—and only each other—every single day. This myopic rivalry amplifies bias, distorts the political debate, warps the marketplace of ideas, shunts policy platforms, fuels outrage, and stifles compromise and negotiation. A deeply backward approach now dominates American politics: hating the other side even more than you like your own. A study published in Science magazine, titled Political Sectarianism in America,71 highlighted this new paradigm: “Democrats and Republicans—the 85% of U.S. citizens who do not identify as pure independents—have grown more contemptuous of opposing partisans for decades, and at similar rates.” Recently, the study continues, “this aversion exceeded their affection for copartisans.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Humans, like other primates, are tribal animals. We need to belong to groups, which is why we love clubs and teams.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion” Alexander Hamilton (1792)”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“The House of Representatives, moreover, is throbbing with underqualified mediocrities.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen.” • “You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Now Biden, to be sure, has had a storied political career. His intentions are in the right place. And his administration is brimming with intelligent and highly competent public servants. But the man at the top—POTUS himself—is well past his prime.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“states that are incapable of meeting the needs of citizens,”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“In ways both big and small, twenty-first-century America has stopped working.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“disenfranchising political ignorants would solve numerous societal problems.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“More than five Americans die from guns for every one Canadian killed by a gun. More than ten for every German. This travesty flows from the 2nd Amendment’s legal and cultural power.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Covid 19 threatened every American in one way or another. But the response was radically dissimilar to the response to the terrorist attacks in 2001. The American body politic had fundamentally changed in the intervening twenty years. Twenty-first-century America had become a very different place.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Steve Bannon, for example, is an alt-right hero to the pro-Trump white working class. Bannon rose from Breitbart News editor to running Trump’s victorious 2016 presidential campaign. From there he became Trump’s White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor. His politics derive from his father’s experience losing his life savings during the 2008 financial crisis. According to Bannon, the elites (inside and outside American government) who built the global capitalist system emerged from the wreckage unscathed—often even richer—while working-class heroes like his father were decimated. Bannon doesn’t hide his intent: “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” These sentiments, more than anything else, explain the Trump phenomenon. For what better vessel is there in the entire world for accomplishing this goal—for bringing everything crashing down—than Donald J. Trump? That’s why Trump’s behavior in office was okay. That’s why his lies about the election are just fine. That’s why the January 6 riot didn’t matter. Not because Trump’s base thinks those things are good for America … but because they know those things are bad for America. Trump has come. And he will go. But what does it say about the underlying state of the American polity that a politician whose central platform is lying about elections is the unrivaled champion of one of the two major political parties? Something broad and deep is afoot. Something pernicious. Something likely to last.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Our assessment of risk and danger is driven by available episodes from memory, not representative data.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Mitt Romney (the 2012 Republican presidential nominee) summed up his view simply: “A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” He’s right. And this is a really big deal.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Losing candidates conceded close elections—for the country’s sake—even if they thought that they had really won. Then came Donald Trump.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“While these are the most high-profile examples of politicians feeling the criminal law’s heat, many others have, too. The list of American politicians who’ve been found guilty of a crime this century is long and growing:”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“If Congress was truly respecting the separation of powers, then impeachment would be considered a last resort, not a first impulse.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation” Marcus Tullius Cicero”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Our criminal justice system treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Barack Obama was no less assertive in using his executive powers—maybe more so than President Bush, and not just in the national security arena, but in many arenas.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Some parts of the Constitution are, in fact, quite dreadful. And some parts are, unquestionably, extremely positive.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
