Bad governance, hubris and self-delusion: America’s most tolerated dangers
If asked, most Americans would agree that economic and financial chaos or a stunning terrorist attack by foreign Jihadis possibly with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction constitute among the gravest threats to the United States. But America faces other more immediate, yet tolerated dangers that have done and are doing irreparable harm to the nation. Sadly, these dangers do not provoke enough public fury or even attention to motivate corrective action. These tolerated threats are bad governance, hubris and self-delusion. Bad government is so wide spread that the public now accepts Washington’s dysfunctionality as the new norm. And hubris and self-delusion have been so assimilated into the national [...]