Critics rarely question US dominance despite its liberal democratic ideals

Evidence

In a recent article on American global power, Ignacio Ramonet, chief editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, recounts the scale of U.S. military, diplomatic, economic, and technological hegemony, and then goes on to ask why-given the liberal democratic ideology of equality and autonomy- there isn’t more criticism of it? I quote his elegant answer in full: “No doubt because US hegemony also embraces culture and ideology. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 730