The coronavirus pandemic may make us more national, far less global, more local, more kin and ethnic centered, and that's good

Elected officials, judges, unelected bureaucrats, corporate America, and especially the propaganda of the media and our schools have allowed voters in democracies very little influence over what happens to them.

But historian's speak of how severe crisis, like a financial shock or pandemics, often need to occur before the people and politicians take serious action.

The coronavirus pandemic we are going through now could bring more power to the people. A restructuring of our political system could make us, by necessity, more national, far less global, more local, more kin and ethnic centered.

We may not be ready yet, or had a big enough shock, to adapt the U.S. constitutional separation of powers and states to develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates in America, in line with kin and ethnic centered human nature, but things seem to be slowly moving in that natural direction, here and in  Europe.

So in the midst of this terrible pandemic that is a hopeful prospect, not a dread.