A Usenet persona calling itself Wilko wrote:

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".

Wah. Democracy works. Socialism doesn't. Just ask Stalin's victims.


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. :-(

We care deeply what you think. We just think you're deluded and oppressed,
and we want to educate you about the benefits of representative democracy
and capitalism, which is what makes the US the most powerful, influential
and free nation on the planet. Caring about what you think does not mean
that we have to accept your fallacious dogmas.

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.

They're entitled to their opinion, even when it's wrong. What they're not
entitled to do is to oppress, enslave, torture, abuse and murder others
because their "opinion" is that they have some right to do so. When they
actualize such "opinions" and oppress others, then the US can, and will step
in to liberate the oppressed and destroy the tyrants. If you don't like
that, then don't oppress others.

Still,
nothing that can't be hidden (for a while) from the population through a
thick layer of propaganda...

I hope you're right, because that way, sooner or later, the veil of
socialist propaganda will be pierced and people will see that they can
obtain security, freedom and happiness by embracing representative democracy
and capitalism.

--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

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