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- Henry Kissinger said democracy is in "great danger" due to growing income inequalities.
- He said that values of "compromise" and "understanding" are in trouble in the West.
- Democracy needs to "rebuild itself," he said.
Henry Kissinger said democracies in the West, including in the US, are in "great danger" because the middle class is disappearing due to widening income inequalities.
In comments to Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, the former top diplomat said the middle class created Western democracy at a time of no "fundamental" political differences, with "respect" for the opposition and "relative" technological stability.