When You Have Increased Migration Of Peoples

Democracy Is Premised, In Some Measure, On Majority Rule, And Democracy Is Difficult In A Situation Of Concentrated Inequalities In Which A Large, Impoverished Majority Confronts A Small, Wealthy Oligarchy.

Cultural America Is Under Siege. And As The Soviet Experience Illustrates, Ideology Is A Weak Glue To Hold Together People Otherwise Lacking Racial, Ethnic, And Cultural Sources Of Community.

Also, Of Course, For Most Of This Time Most Americans Thought Of America As A White Country With, At Best, Only A Very Segregated And Subordinate Role For Blacks.

Quite Obviously Power Will Continue To Play A Central Role In Global Politics As It Always Does. But Usually There Is Something Else.

In 1920, The West Ruled Huge Amounts Of The World.