One way or other, we need to invest in education, infrastructure, social safety nets, and hold governments and corporations more accountable.
On this and other public discourse venues we can throw around all sorts of data porn and link to varies studies. But we have to connect that to the process of looking around in our communities and in our country in general to see what’s happening to the foundations of what has made our country great.
Of course, some folk would say our nation is in decline because we’ve “turned away from God.” But IMHO, the concentration of wealth and power, and thereby the increased separation of government from the will of the people, is a key cause to our demise. Further, as Joe Stiglitz argues in Vanity Fair, extreme inequality detracts from our economic, political, and cultural vibrancy.
The saying that comes to mind is : no middle class, no democracy.
Corporations and government exist to serve the interests of society, not vice versa.
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