Law & Liberty
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David Rothkopf : The U.S. is going through one of the most politically divisive times in its history.
He says four new factors combine to make our times more perilous than most past flareups of disunion.
He writes: Never have we had an educational establishment so hostile to the story of American exceptionalism that it is hard to feel goodwill to opponents bent on destroying the human race.
John Avlon: Civic associations have radically declined in number and reach in the last decades .
Avlon says people segregate themselves by politics and lifestyle into different communities and occupations.
He says people are less likely to encounter neighbors or co-workers of divergent views in everyday activities.
The stakes of today ’s politics are higher, he says, because government is bigger and more intrusive.
The real existential crisis of the day is likely our seeming inability to rebuild the civic culture that can deal with these other crises, real and perceived.
That civic crisis cannot be solved by top-down initiatives.
But civic culture emerges from below, from hundreds of thousands of decisions made by individuals working alone and more effectively together.
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