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ORIGINAL: MrBukani
I understand your first reply.
It's just hard to defend equality wich is in your constitution, when you do not acknowledge the International Court of Justice, the Peace Palace in the Hague, Holland.
And then go around askin the UN who instated that court to invade Iraq on international law.
I think you have America confused with Texas.
The Texas Mafia is out of synch with mainstream Americans, and the Bushes themselves are apparently part of a neo-aristocratic international cabal, certainly, much of their agenda appears to have been for the benefit of BP, not the USA.
Europe is a collection of fairly distinct countries, so it's hard to form an opinion about such a diverse group, though overall, there is much to admire about continental culture, and in some ways, we're moving towards that, the "slow food" movement, which elevates taste above convenience, etc.
Politically, I think both continents are about on par, depends on how far back you go, but backsliding into feudalism is a constant battle, all economies tend towards feudalism, just the cumulative effect of self interest as the haves always fear the have not's are out to take their shit, and start generating and supporting increasingly caste-ish philosophies, which comes to a head from time to time.
Right now, we've been going headlong down a more feudal path, Bush really played on the cowboy mythology that was established by Reagan's handlers, even though he is himself, for all intents and purposes, an East Coast, frat boy elitist himself, but there are signs we're waking up from that. Europe I don't know, the EU seems pretty cartel-ish to me, but I can't say I've really studied it in depth.
Mass media is much more pervasive here, and public opinion is not always as firmly entrenched as it seems, the Bush regime, which used isolationist jingoism to sell globalist policies (!) generated a lot of opposition, even among conservatives, and it probably won't be as easy to pull that off again anytime soon.
i.e., given a little time, I think we'll rebuild much of the international dialogue that we had before Bush - still, the shit that the IMF, WB, etc. tried to pull means that globalization is still something of a dirty word, and it looks a lot like a financial aristocracy from the ground.
Sorting all these different interest groups out, and I think in many ways, it's as they say: the nation-state has been at least temporarily superseded by tranches of related financial interests, much of it a result of advances in communications technology. "We the People" might catch up eventually, but right now, we're pretty much in the van.
Globalization itself is inevitable, but I think we're going to be arguing over the details for quite a while - it's the American way!
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