Sublime

This is too many things. The chances of finding someone prepared to chat about something mutual (like, baseball) are small. When we stop chatting round the water cooler (and its social media equivalents), our world gets less clear, less organized, less cooperative, and less mutual. This threatens the American “we.”

a large majority of Americans do not have consistent and reliable ideological beliefs.

Their distribution, for example, was not at all even. The areas of the maps on which the dots were clustered most thickly corresponded in the main to those areas inhabited by families that were well-to-do or at least “comfortable.” The areas of the maps on which the dots were sprinkled most thinly corresponded in part to undeveloped outlying areas

More central to the heart of governmental responsibility in democracies, however, is the digitization of public services.