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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (314681)12/10/2006 2:38:16 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1573096
 
On a number of occasions, you have complained about the 'backwardness' of the Muslim world.....that in many ways there is a huge gap between them and us. But what about the gap that exists between Americans; which for reasons of simplicity is referred to as the gap between the blues and the reds? While not as large, there is a significant disagreement on how to deal on number of issues. And certainly a number of standards are decidedly different. And certainly the level of sophistication and education varies between the two groups. Even more frustrating that smaller gap has resulted in a near derailment of our international policies. How can we possibly span the gap between westerners and Muslims if we can't even span the gap within our own country? Curious as to what you think.

That's easy. America's gap between your so called blues and reds is decided by periodic elections, free press and majority rule. Elections result in politicians that set national/state/local policies. The press evaluates and criticizes the policies up the wazoo. The next election results in a repeat with the effective policies usually remaining, the ineffective policies getting change. It's called PROGRESS.

In the ME there are no elections, authoritarian rulers set whatever policies they choose with nearly zero oversight from the public, the press is not free to criticise said policies, and there is minimal PROGRESS until the dear leader dies, and the population finds out what the dear leader's son wants to do. If a country has a wise, benevolent, progress minded leader (a la Dubai), things go well. If a country has a less wise, less progress oriented leader (most of the places), things stagnate.
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