Abstract

The Subversion of America

The article discusses various issues related to the subversion of the American democracy. It is being subverted in so far as Americans do not practice it. Subversion of American democracy is not a question of somebody coming in from the outside to give people some Hitlerian propaganda, or somebody organizing a committee to sell on people's own prejudices. The fact of the subversion of the democratic processes begins with the life and conduct of everybody. Difficulties begin not by the absence of virtue, but by the perversion of virtues. It is a very good thing to be an American; it is the greatest thing in the world to be an American, but when the word "American" becomes an exclusive word, becomes tied down to the restriction of privilege in terms of an accident of birth, or an accident of accent, then the poisoned word American becomes a danger and a disease.