The Economist: The only way to feel good about American democracy is to set it beside Brussels

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Haha - The departing editor had something more to say!

The only way to feel good about American democracy is to set it beside Brussels. Woefully unaccountable and ineffective, the European Union is often held together only by the woman who has somehow managed to be both the West’s most impressive politician and its greatest ditherer, Angela Merkel. But to what end? The near-permanent euro crisis has proved a classic exercise in shambolic decision-making, consisting mostly of agreeing to kick the can down the road.

If liberal politics are rightly attacked, the blows that have rained down on liberal economics have perhaps been even more painful.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21641204-john-micklethwait-who-has-edited-newspaper-2006-leaves-today-these-are-his-parting?fsrc=scn/tw/te/rfd/pe