Here's a hunch:
If we don't understand the nature of alienation, and its causes, we don't understand much of what happens around us in this troubled time in the United States.
And if we don't understand those things, we surely don't have a good shot at understanding healing.
And that would seem to leave us only one option. Seize power and muscle through.
And surely that's part of the root cause of alienation, so in the long run that won't be a good enough answer, will it?