ABSTRACT
A good deal of the attack on the American political system is not an attempt to change it but rather to overthrow it in the name of some vague, progressive paradise in the future, based on a Christ-less soteriology. A functioning multi-party political system with fairly strong civil rights makes radical or revolutionary overthrow of a democratic state quite difficult. The Big Lie about the American political system is the usual elitist-based analysis which naively regards "practical politics" as an immoral sellout, a two-party system as the destruction of democracy and a deflection from authentic ideals and values. It was once a legitimate, though imperfect, political system, one which created a consensual politics, and it has disintegrated. It happened because of an off-with-their-heads monocausal approach to the delicately functioning political system of a great city. The American political system, with its many virtues, is something less than perfect.
