"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose“

The United States is the strongest military power in the world and the American political system the most democratic. That does not mean other countries, such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, with far different histories, cultures and religions, will accept Washington’s advice or direction on their forms of government.

Walter Pincus in his last article in the Washington Post after forty years on December 29, 2015 . The paper has declined vastly since then. As for democracy the USA was very democratic until the Civil War and even till Franklin Roosevelt, but Switzerland is much more democratic as she has referendums at national level and no powerful military industrial complex or widespread corruption.