I have to disagree that America in general can be categorized as simply as that. Yes, the administration is "conservative" and even extreme in views re abortion, stem cell, privacy, obscenity.
However, IMO, these views are no where near universal even for those who voted Republican. I'd be willing to bet that a "vote" strictly on those issues would not carry, although there would be large differences in the blue and red states.
As for crime and murder, again, generalizations are hard to prove. You no doubt read about the huge pedophile ring in France. Trial is starting this week. Hand gun crime is definitely bad here compared to other democracies and that is probably because of the gun lobby and the crazed "frontier" excuse. But you've got terrorism in Europe and elsewhere. Asia has it's own brand of crime. Africa, what we would consider crime, is rampant.
I don't think you can tie in the death penalty to the presence of crime.
What I'm suggesting is that these generalizations don't hold a lot of water. I'm guilty of it at times as we all have our biases.
I was particularly interested in your tie in between abortion and right wing opposition to sex ed. As I posted, I'm largely in very liberal areas and there is plenty of sex ed, plenty of abortion and plenty of teen problems. |
