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powerclown · 06-28-2004, 07:30 PM

If America really is this malevolent, pseudo-Democratic, sinister Oligarchy exploiting the naive, ignorant working class as some would have it, how did it get to be the "world's only superpower™"? India (a democracy) has significantly more workers and can't compete with the US.

Is the hard work that created this superpower fueled by indivduals for the sake of themselves and their families, or for their government and its ideology?

And why is it that when a foreign country wants its military or intelligence services trained to the state of the art, they send them to the US (or Israel). When the King of Jordan was sick, they sent him to an American hospital. Top athletes from around the world are trained and treated in America. How many countries' elite (from all over the world, not just the West) are educated in America? Why do people from all over the globe come here to live, work and raise their children? Who makes the best damn hamburgers in the world? Where else in the world can you go skiing and surfing in the same day?! The phenomenon of Disneyland or Hollywood?

Can these things even be legitimately cited as examples of the success of Democracy? Or are they signs of its failure? Are such things frivolous and meaningless and examples of a weak, lazy society with too much time on its hands?

Which leads to this: How does one even evaluate the 'success' then of any ideology?

06-28-2004, 07:30 PM	#50 (permalink)
powerclown Junkie Location: Detroit, MI	If America really is this malevolent, pseudo-Democratic, sinister Oligarchy exploiting the naive, ignorant working class as some would have it, how did it get to be the "world's only superpower™"? India (a democracy) has significantly more workers and can't compete with the US. Is the hard work that created this superpower fueled by indivduals for the sake of themselves and their families, or for their government and its ideology? And why is it that when a foreign country wants its military or intelligence services trained to the state of the art, they send them to the US (or Israel). When the King of Jordan was sick, they sent him to an American hospital. Top athletes from around the world are trained and treated in America. How many countries' elite (from all over the world, not just the West) are educated in America? Why do people from all over the globe come here to live, work and raise their children? Who makes the best damn hamburgers in the world? Where else in the world can you go skiing and surfing in the same day?! The phenomenon of Disneyland or Hollywood? Can these things even be legitimately cited as examples of the success of Democracy? Or are they signs of its failure? Are such things frivolous and meaningless and examples of a weak, lazy society with too much time on its hands? Which leads to this: How does one even evaluate the 'success' then of any ideology? Last edited by powerclown; 06-28-2004 at 07:50 PM..