The Crash of 2016 — How Concentrated Wealth Hollows Out Democracy
Can a society appear stable while the systems supporting ordinary life are being steadily weakened?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America—and What We Can Do to Stop It by Thom Hartmann as our lens, this episode investigates the relationship between concentrated wealth, institutional influence, economic insecurity, and democratic decline.
Hartmann argued in 2013 that the United States was approaching another major historical rupture. He attributed that vulnerability to forces he calls the “Economic…
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