America is suffering from a serious disease. It’s true; in every generation people grumble about how the whole country has ‘Gone to hell in a hand-basket’ and about ‘How much better everything was twenty years ago.’ And they were often right. But now is different. Now by every important measurable indicator that I describe things are worse than ever before. But this is good news; for 2 reasons: (i) When you know the problem, you’re half way to its solution. (ii) It’s not five different causes inflicting all the pain; It’s one single underlying cause and all the different problems are just different symptoms of the same disease.

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