Thank you so much for these provocative pieces, Sandra!
I believe we should consider both the role of competing frames as Lakoff describes them and the impact of institutions. Americans have been operating under a Constitution that is unique in its longevity and controversial in its implications. The Presidency represented a compromise between those who favored a modernized monarchy and those who preferred a dose of democratic accountability. The shift to democratic choice of electors (rather than appointment by legislatures) enhanced the role of the people but within a federal structure designed to protect slavery and check
popular majorities. The "winner take all" policy in most of the states was not stipulated by the Constitution.
We are left with an incoherent system that mixes democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy.
Its most perverse feature is that the winner of the popular vote can lose to the victor in a small number of "battleground" states with little uniformity as to voting systems and great vulnerability to manipulation. For decades we have talked about red and blue states without acknowledging that their persistence suggests deficits of pluralism on the state level and enduring oligarchies.
We have been thinking too much about corporate citizenship and too little about the concept of citizenship itself and its meaning on the national level.
No references in the email but this volume fleshes out the argument:
The Disunited States of America
See you all soon.
David Jacobs
Hi Everyone,
It has been picked up by Newsweek and The Salon (and elsewhere)!
The second is called
What Do We Do When Darkness Wins? and it was published in the University of Michigan's Center for Positive Organizations' revamped blog website, Leading in Trying Times.
Enjoy! And, for any who might agree, let's work on shaping a coherent new narrative!
Best to all,
Sandra
Sandra Waddock
Boston College
Carroll School of Management
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
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