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In reply to the discussion: Why are you so *angry*, Manny? [View all]erronis
(15,404 posts)I really like all of your points about how to climb out of this hole that we've been digging. I'm not sure that a country nationalizing some facet is the right course. It might be all we can do for now, but not sufficient.
However, I'd like all of us to start thinking about doing whatever we can to make these suggestions apply world-wide.
What are the inalienable rights of all of the world's populace? Should they be the same, or more, of those afforded by the US Constitution? I think so.
Should universal health care be planet wide? Education? Sufficient food and shelter and safety? Absolutely.
What stands in the way is nationalism (and its evil twin, religion). Of course parochial and racial tendencies are perhaps inherent and may take generations to cure.
Why is a particular country (USA, Australia, China, Kenya, Vietnam) held up as being the way to deal with universal problems? We (I'm in the USA) have shown ourselves to be particularly self-serving and dismissive of others' cultures and approaches to these problems. I forget the numbers, but it's something like only 30% of US citizens have ever been outside of the country. How can we understand the world without at least sampling other viewpoints?