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Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act

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This authoritative and passionate scrutiny of the three branches of government reveals the changes—political, cultural, constitutional, technological, institutional—that render our government completely dysfunctional, and the urgent want to fix our democracy before it’s too late.

If you’ve been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this book will allow you to have in mind why you’re right. There is colossal concentration of power in the Presidency. Congress is crippled by partisanship and dependence on special interest money. The Supreme Court and many lower federal courts are riven by politics. Add politically fractured and fragile media, feckless campaign finance laws, rampant income and education inequality, and multicultural divisions, and it’s no wonder our leaders can’t agree on anything or muster a solid majority of Americans at the back of them.

With decades as a leader in government, law, and business, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has the maturity to be party-neutral in his evaluation and the perspective to see the big picture of our democracy. The use of anecdotes and examples featuring every modern president and actions of both parties, Califano makes the urgent case that we don’t want to agree, but we do want to consider each other and be worthy of that consider, in an effort to bring back systems of government that protect freedom and promote fairness.

The longer we wait to fix these problems, the more dangerous our situation will develop into. Our Damaged Democracy is the rallying cry we want to get our country back on course.

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