Charles Hugh Smith: Preventing The Final Fall Of Our Democratic Republic

There's mounting evidence that the Age of American Exceptionalism is grinding to an end. Demographically, in the U.S. (as well as many other developed nations), the prospects of the younger generations are substantially less than those of the Baby Boomers. The same is true socioeconomically as well; the wealth gap between the 1% and everyone else continues to accelerate. What's been the root cause of this slide towards greater and greater inequity? And can anything be done to reverse it?