Reclaiming Politics: Solving Problems Washington Won’t
by Michael Gecan, October 2012
Michael Gecan, an organizer with Industrial Areas Foundation for over 30 years, is the author of After America’s Midlife Crisis and Going Public.
Isn’t the whole national political scene just so depressing? Our politicians have lost the capacity to govern. Congress resembles a UN meeting—more showplace than the workplace, where assemblies and debates are ritualized reenactments and individual showmen and sound bites are more important than the larger political process. Members of Congress cannot devote the focused attention and consistent effort that long-term social and economic challenges require.
