A Country Broken on Purpose. Why Trust Faded - and How Steadiness Restores It (en Inglés) - Steven Thomas

A Country Broken on Purpose
Incentive Architecture and the Slow Loss of Public Trust

Something is wrong in American public life.

People can feel it.

Rules do not always seem steady.
Outcomes feel predictable before the process is over.
Power looks protected.
The public keeps carrying the cost.

And the same result keeps coming back.

A Country Broken on Purpose makes a direct case: this did not happen all at once, and it did not happen by accident. Over time, the country changed through repeated choices that rewarded power, delayed accountability, and pushed consequences away from the people making the decisions.

This book examines how that happened across the most important parts of public life:

Across each area, the same truth appears:

Those closest to power feel less of the cost.
The public carries more of the burden.

This is not a book of slogans, outrage, or party talking points.

It is a clear, hard look at how the way the country is run changed over time, why trust weakened, and why the same failures keep returning even after the problem becomes obvious.

Written in a calm but forceful voice, A Country Broken on Purpose strips away political noise and focuses on the structure underneath it. It explains why people no longer trust the process, why reform so often fails, and what would have to change to restore steadiness.

The problem is no longer hidden.

The public already sees who benefits.
The public already sees who pays.

The only question left is whether anything will change.