Too many leaders in business and politics have been willing to do anything to make more money or to gain more power—regardless of the consequences for our society.
We see this everywhere—in the new tax giveaway to big corporations, in gun manufacturer’s use of the NRA to block gun controls, in the Koch brothers' push to roll back environmental regulations, in Donald Trump’s profiting off his presidency.
No wonder much of the public no longer believes that America’s major institutions are working for the many. Increasingly, they have become vessels for the few.
We have never been a perfect union; our finest moments have been when we sought to become more perfect than we had been. We can help restore the common good by striving for it and showing others it’s worth the effort.
The question is whether we can restore the common good. Can the system be made to work for the good of all? I still believe we can. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564303/t…
