Introduction to Part 2 (1 of 2)

In my “outline of posts” page I say this: “The reading and thinking about our polity and society that I have undertaken the last couple of years has made me believe that our current times are significantly precarious, more so than the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. I have gone from a simplistic and perhaps naïve optimism about our country to a view that is at best minimally pessimistic.”

Several considerations generated my move from optimism to at best minimally pessimistic. I now briefly recount these considerations as an introduction to part 2 of my posts, although I have already made a few entries into the second part of my posts’ schema.… Read the rest