America’s friends around the world watched with dismay the recent brawl in the US over raising the federal government’s debt ceiling, and the inability to come to anything like a balanced and forward-looking compromise. Indeed, it has become increasingly clear that good government might be impossible in the US.
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MELBOURNE – If the broad post-World War II prosperity that has endured for six decades comes to an end, both the United States and Europe will be responsible. With rare exceptions, politics has become a discredited profession throughout the West. Tomorrow is always treated as more important than next week, and next week prevails over next year, with no one seeking to secure the long-term future. Now the West is paying the price.