b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 1 Democracy Is in Recession
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/opinion/thomas-friedman-democ
Diamond urges democrats not to lose faith. Democracy, as Churchill noted, is
still the worst form of government — except for all the others. And it
still fires the imagination of people like no other system. But that will
only stay true if the big democracies maintain a model worth following. I
wish that were not so much in question today. | b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 2 the United States of America once a beacon for democracy has fallen very far
from that perch. These days in order to denigrate the USA all you need do
is print the truth. Runaway money corruption, torture, racial crimes, voter
suppression, war making, failing infrastructure...etc. The list is very long
. I can certainly understand why people in other countries might be
concerned about our style of democracy. | b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 3 Mr. Friedman,
Turkey isn’t our problem, America is.
I couldn’t care less about a lack of democracy over there. But, the same
problems here at home are terrifying me.
The chronic foreign wars, the defense budgets equal to the military spending
of the rest of globe, the chronic budget deficits, the enormous national
debt, the corrosive trade deficits, the bribery of the elected politicians
which are reduced to a level of the office mailmen that only deliver the
bills from the corporate headquarters to the floor of the US Congress, the
justice system that cannot make any distinction between the people and the
corporations, equating the money to freedom of speech, spying on the fellow
citizens in the name of freedom and liberty, the health care that costs two
times more than comparable services at other developed countries in the
world, senseless political bickering for the sake of bickering, us vs them
mentality, brainwashing of the domestic population with the endless stream
of senseless commercials aimed at our toddlers, kids, teenagers, adults and
elderly...
Mr. Friedman, how can you care about Turkey and ignore the situation at home
?
Does your loyalty belong to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey or America? |
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