nvirochallenged said:
I wanted to bring up the point that American political policies are not determined by who occupies the presidency, but by the fashion in which Americans live thier day to day lives.
Hmmmmm......ok, I see your point...
this is somewhat true, albeit very indirectly and you're talking trends and not instantaneous direct changes.
nvirochallenged said:
Public activities dictate special interest groups and special interest groups dictate government.
This is not a correct understanding of the process. You are making it sound like today I make decision A in my everyday life and this afternoon a special interest group sees my decision A and formulates policy B and tomorrow I'll awake to new law C. I think your idea of public interest control is quashed by the yesterday's record voter turnout and the subsequent election results. If you want to try to slip in the back door and tell me that public interests exercise some sort of mind control and therefore steered the election that way, then I can't really respond to that.
nvirochallenged said:
The Kyoto Protocol, ignored by the American Government, is a prime example why Americans wont take more responsibility as individuals for becoming such consumers and contributing to a global environmental crisis. The American population is generally unaware that thier consumption is creating tears in the global world.
Ignored by the American Government? Incorrect. It was studied, considered, debated, disputed, and a decision was made not to honor Kyoto. However, I will agree with you that Americans are loathe to take responsibility
as individuals (the clich?d ignorant masses), but "America" has done more to assist the world than any other country in history. Let me ask you, are you sitting in your treetop forest home surfing dweb on your solar-powered laptop? Or are you sitting in your residential structure that required resources to construct and requires ongoing resources to facilitate it's operation? Do you walk to work, naked & barefoot? Do you work? Are you paid? Do you donate all your earnings?
nvirochallenged said:
As America is occupied with whats happening in Iraq, The War on Terror and Increasing border security, the problems that controls these factors are not outside Americas borders, but within.
Sounds incredibly insightful, but this is really a very naive statement. Even if we built walls around our land and capped it off with a giant acrylic dome so we expelled nothing but filtered air to the outside world, people would still attempt to infiltrate our country and kill us. The problems that control these factors are outside America's borders.
