Discussion
This week’s piece: The glass is half-full. Or at least this is my attempt to argue it might be.
We are confronted with a world-historic chance.
I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a potential antidote to cynicism and declinism.
https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/812a42b1-dc13-4e26-b659-736ce7c146b9
Reality has been moving away from those who refuse to imagine “America” as anything other than a land defined by white Christian patriarchal domination. And they know this too. Which is precisely why they are escalating their assault - believing they’re running out of time.
The anti-democratic radicalization of the Right has not been fueled by a sense of strength, but by a pervasive sense of weakness. They are feeling their backs against the wall. And they are reacting to something real: Our “Western” societies have indeed become more pluralistic.
In that sense, it was not the perfectly stable liberal democracy that suddenly fell into crisis (because such an order had never existed), but white Christian patriarchal dominance – what the Right likes to call the “natural order” – that has been coming under pressure.
And no matter how loudly they insist to be representing the “will of the people” in pushing back against these developments, their reactionary ideas are opposed by a stable majority of Americans who prefer and affirm pluralism and diversity.
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