What should the next 10 or 20 years look like in the United States? Many Americans say we need to go back to the future. They want to restore something, or protect something they're worried the United States is losing. And that's not just the Make America Great Again crowd. But others argue that it's not time to restore democracy -- it's time to realize democracy. Dr. K. Sabeel Rahman explains what it would take to make America's democracy work for everyone and why the time for big, structural change is now.

For more on this topic:

• Check out Rahman's article, Realizing Democracy Demands Addressing Deeper Structural Roots of Failure and Possibility of Shared Power, and the full Realizing Democracy series in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Visit the Demos website