"The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion
- but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence.
Westerners often forget this fact;
non-westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist, adviser and academic

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Sam Huntington was one of the main intellectual players in driving neoliberalism and the Democratic Party hard to the Right during the 1970's and 1980's. He was the one who, as a senior fellow of the "center-right" American Enterprise Institute, coined the phrase "excess of democracy" to describe the intervention of the riffraff into destroying elite capitalist control.