That's the problem. Do schools and colleges in China or Japan or India dumb their curriculum down at the behest of "liberals"? Do kids in their schools spend as much time learning about diversity as they do learning calculus? Is the curriculum in their schools PC and "gay friendly"? Are they routinely taught that their country is the source of the world's evils? The Asian students at my school are adults when they arrive here as freshmen. I guarantee you they won't be still having keg parties and sponging off their mom & dad when they're 43. Can't say the same for a lot of Americans, though.
Yep. But the funny thing is — strictly in terms of progress — it doesn’t matter. “If America doesn’t do it, then nobody will do it” is no longer true. If we don’t invent the next supercomputer, then somebody else will invent it. If we don’t do genetic engineering, then someone else will. If America doesn’t want to pour a ton of public money into pure research, then somebody else will — and reap the benefits.