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Americans Are About To Discover That Their System Is More Vulnerable Than They Thought. There's A Lot Of Complacency In American Politics, There's A Lot Of Complacency In Advanced Democracies Generally.

In Journalism I Can Only Tell What Happened. In Fiction, I Can Show It.

If Right And Left Are Competing To Be The Biggest Victim, Who Is Competing To Be The Government?

You've Worked Hard All Your Life. You've Paid Medicare Taxes For Almost 30 Years. But Under The Republican Plan, Medicare Won't Be There For You. Instead Of Medicare As It Exists Now, Under The Republican Plan You'll Get A Voucher That Will Pay As Little As Half Your Medicare Costs When You Turn 65—and As Little As A Quarter In Your 80s. And All So That Millionaires And Billionaires Can Have A Huge Tax Cut.

A Generation Ago, Or Two, When There Were Three Channels, Plus Pbs, And When You Needed - When You Needed 15 Million People To Make A Living, The Media Could Focus On The Broad Country. And Most People Had No Choice About Getting Political Information. It Was There At 6:30 Whether You Wanted It Or Not.