“The basic point — that liberal democracy is the final form of government — is still basically right. Obviously there are alternatives out there, like the Islamic Republic of Iran or Chinese authoritarianism. But I don’t think that all that many people are persuaded these are higher forms of civilization than what exists in Europe, the United States, Japan or other developed democracies; societies that provide their citizens with a higher level of prosperity and personal freedom.”
Over at New Perspectives Quarterly, Nathan Gardels talks to Francis Fukayama twenty years after Fukayama famously announced that the end of the Cold War was tantamount to the End of History itself. (Via Bookforum)
His point, being, apparently that nobody can imagine a viable, functional alternative to the liberal-democratic model.
Of course, the large success of the liberal-democratic model can be seen in the fact that most everybody I know forgot to vote on Tuesday (including myself) except for those people in liberal Maine who decided to repeal the Marriage equity law and once more reinstate prejudice and bigotry into the liberal-democratic model of law.
