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Originally Posted by Charlatan
While I can appreciate your outrage... this seems just a little arrogant, "especially since we have the ability to govern for the common good."
It assumes, among other things:
a) that other nations need to be governed by some higher authority
b) that "common good" is a universal concept
It's not my intention to jump all over you, I just wish to point out that it is this brand of thinking that annoys the rest of the world.
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We do have the
ability to govern for the common good. The US has arguably the most advanced democracy in the world. Sure, we have people who "make" the decisions, but who ultimately calls the shots? The people. If we don't like the decisions that the higher-ups are making, we can take them out of that position. We just don't use our ability enough. I didn't mean to sound arrogant, it was more to say that I would rather have us at the top than, say a communist country. I'll put some more up here, but I gotta habla Espanol.