From the article "Under Western Eyes," by John Gray, in Harper's Magazine, December 2014:
The article is explanation of how Western liberals are particularly unsuited to see and understand what's going on in the world today, as democracies and modern nation-states fail, are never established, and/or are defeated by the more compelling and successful powers of dictatorship and religion.
"With the worst public infrastructure in the advanced world, a disappearing middle class, a higher proportion of the population incarcerated than in any other country, and a government gridlocked by corporate power, America and its political system are seen as a model by no one outside the United States."
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