I agree. I feel bad, in many ways, for all those who will feel the consequences of this election but had no role in the outcome - Americans or otherwise. Being voiceless hurts, when the choice is as big as this one. I have trouble imagining what it must be like to watch something like this happen and know it's going to affect you, and be powerless to react or affect the outcome. Americans don't know this experience. Canada just had an election - most Americans didn't even know it happened let alone what the result was. NONE of the major US news outlets even covered the outcome. (For that matter, close to 25% of my political science students at the University of Michigan can't identify Canada on a map; it's also known as the Soviet Union to at least two of them.) ::rolling eyes::
But yes, we Americans are screwing up the world for an awful lot of people, many of whom would LOVE to be in our shoes and be able to participate AT ALL. I'm starting a campaign (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drenilop/87374.html) to get people to learn about politics and participate more, wherever and whoever they are. It's not a big effort, and it won't be a lot of people, but an ocean is only a lot of drops of water....
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Date: 2004-11-03 10:02 am (UTC)But yes, we Americans are screwing up the world for an awful lot of people, many of whom would LOVE to be in our shoes and be able to participate AT ALL. I'm starting a campaign (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drenilop/87374.html) to get people to learn about politics and participate more, wherever and whoever they are. It's not a big effort, and it won't be a lot of people, but an ocean is only a lot of drops of water....
(sorry to spam you, Michelle)...