> if anything we need to inspire other countries about the benefits of democracy.
I think the US needs to look outward to functional democracies before we try to "inspire" other countries with our broken corruption. What the USA calls lobbying other OECD countries is criminal bribery and all other political dysfunction in the US rolls downhill from there.
I'm not blinded to think "China is doing good stuff", but I'm highly suspicious that we should see ourselves as any better than them right now. We are completely unable to address lots of our own {civil, legal, justice, health, economics, ethics, etc} issues.
I think the US needs to look outward to functional democracies before we try to "inspire" other countries with our broken corruption. What the USA calls lobbying other OECD countries is criminal bribery and all other political dysfunction in the US rolls downhill from there.
I'm not blinded to think "China is doing good stuff", but I'm highly suspicious that we should see ourselves as any better than them right now. We are completely unable to address lots of our own {civil, legal, justice, health, economics, ethics, etc} issues.