If you are trying to make sense out of what has happened to our country over the past 45 years, I strongly encourage you to read this. It is rather Long, but it is very important. Its author, Lewis F. Powell, was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States just two months after he wrote this. if we do not work strategically, creatively, and relentlessly for systemic change for a more just, peaceful, participatory, and sustainable society; the systemic reality created over the past 45 years will continue to lead us down a path of inequality, injustice, war, and ecological devastation. Please read and discern how you can be a part of a movement to transform our systems.