BCITORGB wrote:
OK, I guess I misread your question. Nonetheless, global or not, I'll
venture that most of us outside of the USA would prefer a president
more in tune with our own values. Like so many in the blue states, we
"don't get" the value systems of red state voters. We get New York.
We
get LA. We understand SF, Boston, Seattle, and Portland. But we're
left
scratching our heads at what goes on in Kansas.

You're of course right, whether or not a Kansas school board mandates
the teaching of creationism in science classes, is of no global
consequence to the rest of us. In a similar sense, whether women in
Afghanistan are required to wear a burka or not seems of little
global
import. Or maybe not.

Perhaps you felt outrage at the sight of women in Afghanistan being
required to wear burkas. Now bottle that outrage and think about it.
That's the outrage many feel when they hear that intelligent science
teachers in Kansas are forced to teach religious doctrine in science
classes. This is SCIENCE fer crissake! This is about the scientific
method and a canon of knowledge derived through that method. The
dictates of the Kansas school board are as medieval as the dictates
of
the Taliban. If you want religion, set up religion classes. But don't
ask science teachers teach what they know to be blatantly false.

I guess I still haven't answered your question regarding things of
major "global" import (I'll get to that another time, perhaps). Right
now I'm giving you an example of the visceral reactions your
president
and his FC followers evoke in people around the globe. We don't want
to
be dragged back into the Dark Ages. we're quite comfortable in our
post
modern world.

frtzw906

I almost missed this post, and I really do appreciate your time.

What the Kansas school board does is based very little on who our
president is, but on their freedom to decide what they want for their
children. Not some Government program with enforcement police. Your
science teacher in Kansas is also free to find a classroom where he is
free to teach as he likes. I don't necessarily agree with the school
board, but I do agree that it is their choice, and I live a couple
hundred miles away, in the same country, and its not my business. As
far as the scientific method, sometimes it was not so scientific, but
that is another discussion.

If a woman in Afganistan wears a burka, that is a cultural expression,
no out rage here, from me. As long as she is free to go else where, and
not wear one if she desires, she is free. Now she is also free to stay
and not wear a burka. That liberty is what I value, and would like to
bottle.

I spent three years in southern Mexico right where the Zapatistas are
fighting now for their freedom. I understand cultural differences!

As far as political climate in the blue states, keep in mind that they
were blue by only the smallest margin, even requiring recounts, with no
hanging chads. Those blue need to pay attention to the red in their
district, less the tide turn. Then your head will really swim! TnT