A plea to all eligible US citizens...please register to vote! - (Jan/18/2008 )
As someone who lives under the shadow of US policies, but who is unable to affect them in any meaningful way, I'd hereby like to ask all US citizens who are able to vote in this year's Presidential elections to do so, for the sake of the rest of the world!!!!!
You might think that you can't do anything effective, but your vote is something we don't have.
Good advice, swanny!
Just curious, as an outsider, who do you personally prefer among the candidates?
You guys should really vote, as said swanny, for the sake of the world!!
democracy...hmmm...it's a hard issue from my point of view. you'll see, my country was under the same regime for over 70 years, it was until recently that the political party in comand was another one. did it change? we had the "worst president" in history, a completely null person, whos only sign of leadership i saw was not supporting the us in the war, other than that...there are several books making fun of him. one of his best phrases "¿y yo por qué?" (which means "why me?") and so many others. i state i'm not pretending to make any offense here, but i consider the united states is not united at all, the last elections have been almost 50 / 50, or is that what democracy is like? that half of the population in a country has to stand the decisions the other half makes through their representatives no matter if they're good, or in many cases really bad?
swanny, i suppose it really sucks not to have the option to vote, but i consider it worse when a country is invaded "in the name of democracy"
just a question:
since the leader of USA will b the " leader of the world ", shouldn't outsiders vote for the president like other amiricans !!
"Democracy" is a feel-good word which, in modern usage, mostly ends up meaning "whatever the US government wants at the time." The US isn't even a democracy, it's a democratic republic, made up of constituent democratic republics. Democratic institutions, such as universal suffrage, are a good thing, though.
The "United" part of the US comes not from the uniform opinions of its population - since our founding we've managed to disagree with ourselves on nearly anything. Instead, the term refers to the US's nature as a federal republic - 13 independent states banded together to create a larger nation, and to institute rules whereby other states could be formed or otherwise join the nation.
And no, outsiders shouldn't vote for our president, much as US citizens shouldn't vote or otherwise influence the EU.