Introduction When aiming to answer the question of “what is going on with America?” one must look first at what the underlying feelings currently held by Americans, by asking the first question: “what do Americans agree on?” The contemporary feeling is overwhelmingly one of estrangement, felt from those in all facets of American life. This feeling, an internal feeling of Americans in relation to their political system, can be felt from sea to sea, from those living in rural factory towns in the midwest, to the metropolises on the coasts, from the ghetto of West Baltimore, to the gated...