S. Huntington defined institutions as "stable, valued, recurring
patterns of behavior".
Everybody in this universe believed that the American institutions are stable
and the most valued patterns of behavior. Just a few months of COVID-19 broke
the shell of polished lie. The American institutions is a fake news. This
happened not because the depression of the longer home stay without pay had to
be channeled into the rage of racial and social riot. This happens because the discussion
of institutions was just words about the institution and there were no
recurring patterns of valued behavior in many organizations and procedures. The
labor income share fall in the 2000s reveals an important process - the US
institutions tried to cover the globe (the whole world is not enough)
and a larger part of the US society was
eliminated from this institutionalization process as insignificant. The set of
social organizations and procedures was reduced to suppression of potential protests
by various means from rough vocal statements ("Basket of
deplorables" ) to law enforcement ("Occupy Wall
Street") instead of resolving crucial problems of the racial, social, and
economic inequality.
The US
institutions failed because there is no consensus in the society. The
organizations and processes are still alive, however. And they fight now not
for institutionalization of new
and adequate "patterns of behavior" within the USA but for power and money. And this
war will be costly to all organizations but most painful for the US society.
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