The Greatest Threat to Our Democracy Is Our Blind Faith in It

"The greatest threat to our democracy is our blind faith in it," he says. "We have an assumption that it's just going to be there for us because it's been there." When you come to a civic Saturday and are invited to discuss a question like, who are you responsible for? Or what are you willing to risk or to give up for your community?" He adds: "You realize that homelessness, gun violence, gentrification, terrible traffic, fake news, these things aren't someone else's problem ... They are the aggregation of your own habits and omissions"