Today we face a problem with this approach, in the belief that it is only by focusing on what is wrong with the world that we can keep power accountable and maintain a healthy and well functioning society.
The USA should care about functioning societies.
If the global financial crisis taught us anything, it's that well run, transparent financial institutions matter to a smoothly functioning society — and vice versa.
Its member countries have strong legal frameworks and well-functioning societies.
This change can occur either as a planned gradual transition, preserving well-functioning societies, or as a more disruptive, unplanned transition resulting in a less pleasant society with a reduced ecological capacity".
Effective states are founded on institutions, norms and well-functioning societies.
Yet only position (2), non-relativistic conservatism, can express the conservative criterion of a well-functioning society, in terms of organic tradition; there is no such thing, in these terms, as a "reasonably functioning totalitarian society".
Communication is a basic, fundamental part of any functioning society.
"To function well, society also needs other public services; roads and a transport network... a public infrastructure so that economic activity can flourish; and some type of basic regulation to prevent fraud and malfeasance...
Hillary Clinton wasn't born an aristocrat, but she functions as one now, and, assuming she becomes a major-party nominee, she can only take her new and rather profound critique of how well American society functions so far.
