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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (50701)	6/12/2002 10:06:40 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think it is a bit of both. My impression of the States (and I have travelled widely throughout the US) is that the sense of individualism is part and parcel of the incessant voting at local levels. This sense of voter autonomy encourages a certain parochialism--which is just next door to individualism, and GFY. Your people have been taught to rely on and to esteem the values of individualism. This is a good thing when it is embraced by the mature and the educated. For the simple and the selfish it is a recipe for antagonism and confrontation...