We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.
Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.