{"id":12886,"date":"2024-02-12T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2024-02-12T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:04:08","slug":"why-the-world-is-betting-against-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12886","title":{"rendered":"Why the World Is Betting Against American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;When I asked the European ambassador to talk to me about America\u2019s deepening partisan divide, I expected a polite brushoff at best. Foreign diplomats are usually loath to discuss domestic U.S. politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the ambassador unloaded for an hour, warning that America\u2019s poisonous politics are hurting its security, its economy, its friends and its standing as a pillar of democracy and global stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The U.S. is a \u201cfat buffalo trying to take a nap\u201d as hungry wolves approach, the envoy mused. \u201cI can hear those Champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow \u2014 like it\u2019s Christmas every fucking day.\u201d&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;one former Arab ambassador who was posted in the U.S. during both Republican and Democratic administrations told me American politics have become so unhealthy that he\u2019d turn down a chance to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if in the coming years people will be looking at the United States as a model for democracy,\u201d a second Arab diplomat warned.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/01\/15\/what-foreign-diplomats-say-about-u-s-politics-behind-closed-doors-00135326\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/01\/15\/what-foreign-diplomats-say-about-u-s-politics-behind-closed-doors-00135326<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I asked the European ambassador to talk to me about America\u2019s deepening partisan divide, I expected a polite brushoff at best. Foreign diplomats are usually loath to discuss domestic U.S. politics.<br \/>\nInstead, the ambassador unloaded for an hour, warning that America\u2019s poisonous politics are hurting its security, its economy, its friends and its standing as a pillar of democracy and global stability.<\/p>\n<p> The U.S. is a \u201cfat buffalo trying to take a nap\u201d as hungry wolves approach, the envoy mused. \u201cI can hear those Champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow \u2014 like it\u2019s Christmas every fucking day.\u201d&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;one former Arab ambassador who was posted in the U.S. during both Republican and Democratic administrations told me American politics have become so unhealthy that he\u2019d turn down a chance to return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if in the coming years people will be looking at the United States as a model for democracy,\u201d a second Arab diplomat warned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/01\/15\/what-foreign-diplomats-say-about-u-s-politics-behind-closed-doors-00135326<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,390,619],"class_list":["post-12886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-diplomacy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}