Yeah, it's a question of expectations. Lots of people like to decry the "failure" of democracy or of a particular democracy and it's really just a failure to li

Yeah, it's a question of expectations. Lots of people like to decry the "failure" of democracy or of a particular democracy and it's really just a failure to live up to the incredibly lofty expectations we've set. The political dysfunction we see in America or Britain today may seem worse than it used to be, but in a historical frame of reference we're still functioning pretty close to the peak of human accomplishment.