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Bonn1997 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 10:58 AM Original message |
Should we hold our politicians to a lower standard than most western countries' citizens hold theirs |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. The citizens of those countries have less delusions |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. i can think of a couple of things -- one is the near hysterical belief that |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
3. Because the United States is not Canada, Britain, or France. Maybe we would have been better off |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I think the French have been independent |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Well if we were still under Britain's rule maybe we would have universal health care coverage by now |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
4. No, but the voters have little to say about it. We're given a cookie |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. The US is the least democratic out of any of the developed Western countries...nt |
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Bonn1997 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-02-09 11:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. That's true but what can we do about it? Maybe very little and it's just something to accept. |
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