Image from ODT filesFor seven decades after 1945 the United States proclaimed itself the global standard-bearer of democracy - and broadly was. But the United States generally lived up to its proclamation. And at home the United States practised the democracy it preached. But federal politics, the window through which would-be democrats elsewhere see the United States, has gone off the rails. The United States clings to a first-past-the-post two-party system long after more democratic countries, including ours, have opted for more representative systems.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 07, 2016 17:18 UTC