Unchecked money and bad habits can corrupt the American democratic project

Evidence

Dewey saw American democracy as an unfinished project. He knew that the aims and purposes of this country were not fixed forever in the founding documents, but the particular challenges of our moment required imaginative leaps on behalf of democracy itself. Otherwise, undemocratic forces might prevail; tyranny in the form of the almighty dollar and the relentless pursuit of it might overtake any commitment to the idea of the public good; and bad habits might diminish our moral imaginations. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 520

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘bad habits’ (Glaude’s central concept) as a threat to democracy itself — economy of the value gap concept.