Yes, why don't we just pretend that all other democratic systems are always perfect and have never had immense problems. That's obviously what Italian, Spanish, German and French history from the last 200 years would teach us, right?
The US has one of the oldest, mostly unbroken democratic systems in world history. Just go back to eg 1840 or 1890 and take a look at all the nations of the world and their government systems at the time. Nearly the entire world was more than century behind the US in adopting any form of representative government. It's a small miracle it still functions at all given the cruft that has been stapled on over two centuries.
The US has one of the oldest, mostly unbroken democratic systems in world history. Just go back to eg 1840 or 1890 and take a look at all the nations of the world and their government systems at the time. Nearly the entire world was more than century behind the US in adopting any form of representative government. It's a small miracle it still functions at all given the cruft that has been stapled on over two centuries.