The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Politics is not about power.
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
