Are you tired of hoping that those beholden to the wrong people will do the right thing? Decades of electoral work and activism have failed to bring us sustainability, peace, or a just society. Blessed Disillusionment shows that there is a reason: the political system operates to absorb discontent while averting the fundamental change we urgently need. This short book (140 pages before appendices) explains why the crises and upheaval we see in the U.S. will inevitably increase. The question is whether our country will fall to neofascism or ascend to true democracy and, in time, the beloved community. Finally, the book offers a path towards building a massive, nonviolent, but truly revolutionary movement-one based on love melded with clear-eyed realism-that will allow us to pass on to our children a society where they truly govern themselves, in the interests of all.