Losing the global culture wars

An interesting article at Salon discusses the increasing coherence of the European Union and the degree to which it is gradually taking over from us as the example to the world of how moral values and economic success can coexist. Markos excerpts solid chunks and adds his own view that we've been lapped and will be so increasingly...

Twenty-two percent of American children grow up in poverty, which means that our country ranks 22nd out of the 23 industrialized nations, ahead of only Mexico and behind all 15 of the pre-2004 EU countries. What's more horrifying: the statistic itself or the fact that no American politician to the right of Dennis Kucinich would ever address it?

Too much to hope that we might still learn something from our onetime allies?