We currently inhabit a second Gilded Age in which the active interplay within that dialogue has almost completely disappeared because belief in a prominent role for government has been placed on the permanent defensive, in part because one side enjoys the advantage of a very large and expensive megaphone that amplifies its message. As a result, mainstream politics is trapped in a one-sided conversation, a muted version of the American Dialogue bereft of the energy and conflict-driven dynamism possible only with full engagement of both sides of our founding principles. Adams predicted this
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