Our damaged democracy: we the people must act

Introduction

Part I: POTUS the powerful

Enhancing POTUS power

POTUS the commander-in-chief

POTUS the legislator

The four pillars of POTUS power

Part II: The crippled Congress

The grip of the gerrymander

Pay to play Congress

Congressional chaos

Cutting its nose to spite its face

Where war is not war

Part III: The politicized court

Political labor pains

Political party polarization

Part IV: The subject states and cities

Money makes the rules

The game changers

Presidential preemption and prerogatives

Part V: Money: the root of political evil

Day of political infamy

The money game

Money opens doors and ears

States, judges and think tanks in the political money mix

Part VI: American fault lines

The media fault line

Racial and cultural political party fault lines

The partisanship fault line

Income and education inequality fault lines

Single-issue fault lines

The military-civilian fault line

Part VII: We the people

We the people must act

Appendix A: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: dues and money raised

Appendix B: The Electoral College.