When I think of it, the challenge is that America has been advertised and sold as a market, not a nation. It has a process of citizens becoming passive dependent consumers capable only of rage.

Even military servicemen usually talk of economic reasons to serve. So everyone wants a better bank balance not necessarily develop a spine of national character.

The challenge is to revive the great nation from the clutches of the market

The same problem in India is that people are made to think of themselves as spiritual and religious people without anything to do about politics.