“. . . The 2018 Democracy Project, . . . . asked fourteen hundred adults about the importance of democracy as our form of government. Among respondents aged twenty-nine or younger, only 30 percent said "absolutely important." Overall, only 60 percent of those polled expressed absolute adamancy. When asked if America is in "real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country," overall, 50 percent said yes.
Half of us are in fear of democracy's collapse? How in the world did we get there?
Well, I have a detailed answer to that question, and then I further presume to prescribe a solution--a solution that has little to do with the actions of government, quite a bit to do with the imperatives of the marketplace, and most of all to do with you, the citizen. So yes, "American Manifesto" is a call to action but it requires maybe a more challenging commitment: to be prepared to discard, or at least reconsider, aspects of your own personal orthodoxy, your assumptions, your affinities, and maybe even one or two articles of faith. Because the time for narrow interests, and the time for delicacy, has passed. This is an emergency. It's time for all the king's horses and all the king's men to get fucking busy. Please note also: I am not inciting a revolution. I am outlining a de-devolution.”