Changes

1. USA/West have republic/democracy and populaces often resist fiscal responsibility and engage in excess spending and having aging populations and increasing populism/nativism (Talented immigrants and/or immigrants with proven work ethic are less likely to have legal immigration). Democracies less apt to initiate expensive wars, but once wars are started rulers often don't want to lose face to the public by withdrawing from wars they are losing.  Western liberals/Western want to spend more, but increasing can't do so due to financial restrictions have less appeal to public via "goodies".  

1. USA/West have republic/democracy and populaces often resist fiscal responsibility and engage in excess spending and having aging populations and increasing populism/nativism (Talented immigrants and/or immigrants with proven work ethic are less likely to have legal immigration). Democracies less apt to initiate expensive wars, but once wars are started rulers often don't want to lose face to the public by withdrawing from wars they are losing.  Western liberals/Western want to spend more, but increasing can't do so due to financial restrictions have less appeal to public via "goodies".  

However, USA/Europe payed off WWII debt.  

However, USA/Europe paid off WWII debt.  

2. Autocracies: Top down leadership is less self-correcting and less apt to be responsive/dynamic in relation populace. If imperialistic, more apt to start wars.  If "spin dictators", able to start wars more easily, but with some accountability to fake/weak elections where competitors are kept out, find it harder to end wars than more authoritarian regimes like communist regimes.  

2. Autocracies: Top down leadership is less self-correcting and less apt to be responsive/dynamic in relation populace. If imperialistic, more apt to start wars.  If "spin dictators", able to start wars more easily, but with some accountability to fake/weak elections where competitors are kept out, find it harder to end wars than more authoritarian regimes like communist regimes.  

3. Autocracies have less economic growth. However, populism in West have less economic growth

3. Autocracies have less economic growth. However, populism in West have less economic growth (But Trump, the businessman, had growth (But not cost cutting partly due to pandemic perhaps), regulation cutting, good foreign policy, etc.).[https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20202045]

4. Be a better democracy: The US needs a lot of self-correction but this is what it is finding so difficult to do.[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/be-a-better-democracy-the-us-needs-a-lot-of-self-correction-but-this-is-what-it-is-finding-so-difficult-to-do/]

4. Be a better democracy: The US needs a lot of self-correction but this is what it is finding so difficult to do.[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/be-a-better-democracy-the-us-needs-a-lot-of-self-correction-but-this-is-what-it-is-finding-so-difficult-to-do/]

1. [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2014/05/samantha-power-kennedy-school-commencement-address Democracy Is Self-Correcting]

1. [https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2014/05/samantha-power-kennedy-school-commencement-address Democracy Is Self-Correcting]

2. USA tradition of self-correction and dynamism:

2. USA tradition of self-correction and dynamism: "The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults." - French historian and politician Alexis de Tocqueville.

== Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ==

== Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ==