Obviously you did not read the article, it proves you wrong.
I agree with DIRTYSECRET on this, although you are correct, in this case the person did appear to be a liberal who “got mugged” and she understands what I have known nearly my whole life, and I know it not from simple blind patriotism.
I consider myself fortunate that I lived in other countries growing up, and had traveled around the world by the time I was 13 (military family)
I believe that experience never put me in the situation of having to be a liberal who needed mugging to see the truth. I saw different cultures and abject poverty...children willing to swim in an open sewer to have pennies thrown to them counts as abject poverty to me.
When I landed on the runway at Kennedy International Airport at the age of 13 after living overseas for about four years, I literally-not figuratively-literally got on my knees and kissed the tarmac. Not because my life overseas was hard-far from it...living on large military bases is like being in America.
But I saw enough to make me realize that even with flaws and faults, America was the best place in the world to be, bar none.
These people in the Peace Corps are overwhelmingly leftist, and unfortunately, many are so ideologically fixed in cement that they are not going to change their mind until they literally are bleeding, lying in an open sewer after being assaulted for a ballpoint pen, shoes, or a hat.
The Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, and stuff like that should be gone, IMO.