{"id":2286,"date":"2023-02-06T21:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2023-08-21T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:05:32","slug":"the-year-americas-basic-systems-started-to-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/02\/06\/the-year-americas-basic-systems-started-to-crumble\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year America\u2019s Basic Systems Started to Crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chaos in Washington, madness at the airport, holiday hangovers: The first month of 2023 was familiar enough. What might seem less familiar to Americans, however, are the cracks appearing in our walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure, Americans have long felt a decline\u2014maybe a few shifts in the foundations; the yearly polls on trust in major institutions reflect that well enough. You might hear an uncle who says, \u201cWall Street\u2019s a bunch of crooks!\u201d or a neighbor who notices, \u201cWashington politicians are only in it for themselves,\u201d or even an old classmate who thinks, \u201cColleges are just a bunch of crazy activists these days,\u201d but the complaints largely ended with the complaints themselves. Everything still worked well enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em><em>Christopher Bedford is the executive editor of the upcoming magazine, Common Sense. Follow him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBedfordDC\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/06\/the-year-americas-basic-systems-started-to-crumble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from the year America settled into \u2018normalcy,\u2019 2022 was the year the basic systems we all count on started to break down.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Year America\u2019s Basic Systems Started to Crumble - Common Sense Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People want their nations to reflect their values and serve their interests. 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