Thanks, I enjoyed this. I'd love to see expansion on the first section in future writings. As a man, and white, I find new bits everyday about what it means to be a man and what I want, and it seems more, at its very core to be the same underlying mechanism of any human. The more that commonality gets woven into the societal story, the better. Two thoughts, as I read this:

1. I think campaign finance reform is the most important issue. Make bribery actually illegal, make it a little more dangerous for those with existing power/resources to grease palms, provide a richer tapestry of candidates that align better with real life issues and create accountability to voters instead of donors. (Similar idea to keeping capitalism from eating itself - create accountability to customers instead of investors, expand horizontally at the expense of vertically, diversify. Just sound investment advice.)

2. The groaning and shuddering of the nation, now, is the myths of American exceptionalism, white exceptionalism and protestant work ethic as morality being proven false in the experience of most people. Some grip tighter to them to try to make them true, but there's nothing there. Not sure if this is recoverable, but I hope there's something left when these myths completely evaporate.