Reply #6: No worse or better? [View All]

[Oregone]

Now thats bullshit. I guess Ive "automatically" picked a fight with you...

Come on now. The masses of every region in the world are not homogeneous in all aspects. There is massive ignorance and anti-intellectualism in many regions of the USA that has no equal in some other nations (though this itself may be a product of a government orchestrated environment, it, nonetheless, exists).

Why is this election so close? How is it a candidate that is infinitely better than the other in many aspects, who has the advantage of a failing economy, and unpopular war, etc, is not doing better in the polls? Why is it that it takes an unprecedented economic disaster this week before Americans finally start to prefer him? Look at opinion polls in the world..No one except Americans, and a handful of other countries, significantly consider McCain as a viable contender.

If you can't recognize a problem, you sure as hell can't fix it.


Obama win preferred in world poll
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7606100.stm

4 to 1 margin. People in Brazil are naming themselves Obama on the ballot to win their election. He is popular everywhere. No one in this country Im in hears a damn thing about McCain (they all think Obama has it in the bag), because he is so popular here.

Other countries contain citizens with uniquely different world-views, and feelings on what "community" really is. Of course, you cannot quantify, objectively, "better" and "worse", but these different ideas, policies, world-views produce significantly different consequences (like Health Care), which has "bad" and "good" effects on the community at large. What is the empirical effect of world-views/attitudes of the people of the USA, as a whole, on their and other's communities?