The Crossroads of American Politics and the Political Sciences
- John-Michael (Jean-Michel) Valat De Cordova
- Mar 27, 2024
- 3 min read
Today, American politics finds itself at a critical crossroads between two opposing political and philosophical ideals; one that espouses the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and another that stands to centralize. The political dichotomy of the contemporary United States can best be described as the struggle for liberty juxtaposed with the struggle against it, best exemplified by the growth of an ever-increasing power-elite as described by C. Wright Mills, as well as the foundations of American democracy and political culture as described by Alexis de Tocqueville, and finally as seen in the structural soundness of American political life despite radicalization as described in the New Yorker article.
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