Similarly, when Carnegie Endowment's Thomas Carothers worked on the Central American "democracy promotion" programs in the Reagan administration, he explained how it worked: And then once again, we see the "strong line of continuity" of this policy in the Obama administration:
This is the kind of power you have when you read rather than watch cable news. It's like being a scientist: the power to understand and predict. Then again, it's also like a curse because you have to watch everyone around you get dumber. You're not all alone but you feel that way sometimes.
