Democracy Erosion to Explosion

The Rise of the Right

Slowly, quietly our democracy was shifting under our feet. It was subtle enough for most of us to ignore it. Most people did. It seemed like a stream of anomalies that didn’t appear to change the fabric of most of our lives; abstractions that felt far away and unimportant. It started in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan when Pluto went into Scorpio and both …