Liberal Democracy?
Iraq may be on its way to a some kind of consensual government and the rule of law, surely better than fascist Baathist Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, but “liberal” democracy? The Islamic Republic of Iraq?

Is the EU going to be a “liberal democracy”? That may be the marketing plan, but from here it looks to be about to become an oligarchy, led and governed by a relatively small circle
of elites, with strongly mercantile tendencies.
India, with it’s elitism and caste system, a liberal democracy? Perhaps among the Brahmins, but what of the Untouchables? The Indians are good people trying to govern a very populous and poor country fairly, but liberal democracy?
And looking at the demographics of many of the so-called liberal democracies (the G8 and the rest), the larger question is:
Can they survive?
Is the Western Liberal Democracy model…a death wish?

Francis Fukyama is undoubtedly a very smart man, but I think he has written about the world he perceives as a member of the Trans-national prgressives. It’s not the real world where people still have dark dreams, and “monsters from the Id” still wander in the night.