BCITORGB wrote:


Clearly, for you Americans, it is YOUR election and your government.
Unfortunately, as a nation, you are so powerful and influential that
who you elect has an impact on virtually every other soul on this
planet. YOU may have decided that the Bush right-wing agenda is right
for America. Many (the vast majority) of us outside of the United
States do not agree.

Well said Wilf. It's funny to see people who are both politically almost
off the far right side of the political scale complain about their
differences. It's troubling to see the ones representing them not only
try to carry out those ideas inside the U.S. but also try to force them
onto the rest of the world. It's even more troubling to see that they
are trying to export that what they call "democracy".

I find it curious and disheartening that America can be so out of step
with prevailing global opinions. The rest of the western world is
clearly "blue". Likely we could color the prevailing
anti-intellectualism of places like Afghanistan and other
fundamentalist cultures "red".

It's very simple: the vast majority of the U.S. population just don't
care what anyone else outside the U.S. thinks. :-(
Being that out of touch with the rest of the world and behaving like it
doesn't matter what anyone else thinks has one drawback though: it does
have its consequences when other people get it in their heads to make it
painfully clear to you that they have a differing opinion. Still,
nothing that can't be hidden (for a while) from the population through a
thick layer of propaganda...

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Wilko van den Bergh wilko(a t)dse(d o t)nl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
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