I used to think that the American model of government is as good as it gets. But doubt has arisen because of how odd things have become. I do not think it works except for the sort of WASP population that it was originally designed for. [WASP=White Anglo Saxon Protestant] That seems to be an inescapable conclusion. But I also would like to venture a guess that there are two factors that are involved--DNA and also the Judeo-Christian set of values as contained in the Bible. [However, it is interesting that the American form of government was really a duplicate of the English form along with the Magna Carta and Provisions of Oxford which were developed while England was Catholic. That is when that form of government was conceived. But, of course, when John Locke wrote the Two Treatises of Government and the important ideas of Daniel Defoe , England was already Protestant. ]
From this insight, I am thinking that the attack on American values from inside and out as a negative thing. But in what way this relates to Israel, still befuddles me. After all, after Theodore Herzl, Israel was founded by communists or hard left socialists. But that is not to say that that was the best approach. I RECALL vividly when the left wing Labor Party was in power in the 1980's, and the inflation was like Weimer Germany in the 1920's. I loaned one fellow a hundred shekels, and when after a half year he returned the money, it was worth 10 shekels.
