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Originally Posted by Uday
Okay, I don't feel like telling you about my country, too.
Thank you for all the help.
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Were you talking about the population or politicians? Those answers are completely different. I apologize for being jumpy, I've unfortunately been around too many wannabe radicals lately...
If you look at the American population then there are very large differences between Democrats and Republicans. They have completely different political views because they each, to some extent, have different ideas of what the world
should be.
If you look at American politicians, they have to deal with many interest groups and tend to have "experts" telling them what is the best solution. They also have to differentiate between what is best rhetoric and what is best policy and keep up the juggling act. The best politicians, policy wise, are not the politicians that know everything, but the ones that can put the best people around them. And even though an administration can change every four or eight years, the people in Washington tend to more or less stay the same. So whether the politicians are Republicans or Democrats they tend to be around and influenced by the same people.
That is why there are many similarities in, lets say foreign policy, between Bush and Obama even though their political rhetoric is completely different. But do note that even though you can find a vast amount of similarities, there are distinct differences. There isn't a "good" party versus an "evil" party (even though many Americans see it that way), if that is what you were getting at with your first post, but just two different variations of the more or less same perspective of reality.
02-14-2011, 07:36 PM
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