For example, they praise the USA by saying that in the USA they have the freedom to criticise their own country. Well, so do citizens in most of the world! Comparing the USA against Chile or N Korea is not saying much.
And they also bang on about how wealthy the USA is. Most US citizens earn terrible wages by European or Australian standards. But by, say, Iranian standards the USA standard of living is good. But what kind of comparison is that?
And they bang on about Freedom. The USA has one of the worst human rights records in the world, and the highest prison population in the world. Is that Freedom? Seems a pretty twisted definition to me.
How about Democracy? Your political parties are virtually identical, and your system is structured so that it is virtually impossible, due to funding legislation, for an incumbent to be dislodged. By Cuban standards you have "democracy", but what kind of comparison is that?
So, are the Republicans on this site suffering from a mass psychosis?
2006-09-15
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