The keyboard is mightier than the machine gun... The political, philosophical and general outpourings of a troubled soul living in Australia and blogging his Vietnam veteran's head off.
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posted by Gerry at
6:07 AM
The counter shown below displays the number of Israeli military personnel refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. I applaud their integrity and their strength of character. To me they are heroes of peace and humanity.
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Gerry, it's a poor democracy, at least that's what we have here. The primary reason for that is because far too many Americans DON'T THINK. My rationale on this comes from a lot of sources, but here's a classic example: in recent polls, some 70% of Bush voters believe that Saddam actually HAD weapons of mass distruction and that we found them. Also, some 30% of Bush voters believe that Saddam had nuclear weapons and that we found those too! In other words, there are a whole bunch of ill-informed (or non-informed) citizens in this country who don't give a good rat's ass about learning anything factual to support their political choices.
Trust me, our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves over this.
Agreed, Jeff, but you haven't answered the question to my satisfaction. ;-)
Alright, Gerry. The answer to your question is NO.
And, Jeff, do you think there is a "democracy" anywhere whose citizens are not conditioned by their culture to vote a certain way?
Probably a lot of democracies contain sub-group cultures whose values certainly do come into play. In that regard, perhaps the more "sub-cultures" that you have in a single democracy the better.
Multiculturalism?
Exactly, just as long as they're not religious based sub-cultures (especially fanatics).
Most fanatics seem to me to be monoculturalists. i.e. "my culture/religion/way is the only right culture/religion/way". And that's pretty much what the written torah/old testament/quran seem to "teach" as well. Even fanatical secularists (like me) fall into the same trap. That last bit I only realised today. Pretty thick, ain't I?
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