Ch. 44 Domestic Tranquility
"People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That's not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It's about we the people." - Camila Alves When our Founding Fathers added the phrase "insure domestic tranquility," they probably never imagined that this would be one of the most contested battlegrounds in modern American society. Today, the concept of domestic tranquility no longer reflects its original context of preventing interstate conflicts. It has become the focal point of a an existential struggle between two competing visions of American society: one that works for everyone, and one that preserves existing power structures and inequality. That 3.5% As we discussed in the previous chapter, history tells us something about social movements. It only takes 3.5% of a population (when unified and purposeful) to create transfo...