Great column from Friedman

 

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times had lunch with President Biden recently, and wrote a great column about it, and his thoughts accompanying it.

My Lunch With President Biden

Here's a quote that's troubling, and well said.

"I fear that we’re going to break something very valuable very soon. And once we break it, it will be gone — and we may never be able to get it back.

I am talking about our ability to transfer power peacefully and legitimately, an ability we have demonstrated since our founding. The peaceful, legitimate transfer of power is the keystone of American democracy. Break it, and none of our institutions will work for long, and we will be thrust into political and financial chaos."

Many of us are in that same frame of mind;  troubled, but not sure what can be done to address this drift toward the demise (or crippling) of American democracy.