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Originally posted by fotze@Jun 6 2005, 03:48 PM
There is a difference between 'Americans' and American foreign policy. It is alright to rail against the policy part.
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However one might ask oneself as to who has the power to change American policy?
Americans do.
Obviously the media is a giant propaganda machine and there are endless distractions to take one's mind off what's really happening in the world but I think a lot of Canadians are frustrated that Americans overall don't seem to care enough to change their country. We can't do it, they are the only ones who can. Was talking about this subject with a few friends on the weekend and someone brought up the point that a lot of the people he had met down there didn't like the ways things were but that they were resigned to it. They didn't think it could be helped or changed. That disempowering attitude is disconcerting to anybody who isn't in the most powerful country in the world and is concerned about where the US is leading us and the example they are setting for the rest of the world.
I think for me it boils down to the belief that people are upset that Americans don't demand better of their government and their media. It's like they get a free pass because people don't believe they have the power to make a difference or change anything.