Comments on: The Divided States of America

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By: Iris Lynch

Iris Lynch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:08:57 +0000

True, that generally speaking people have a really hard time putting themselves in someone else’s shoes. If you have ever witnessed a shocking event and saw the many DIFFERENT reactions to the same set of curcumstances, it would be easier to understand that we are inexplicably different. Of course any poll on any subject verifies those differences.

By: framer

framer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:31:52 +0000

Wooden Teeth,

That is the real eye opener of the entire subject: the Russian professor interjecting his own experience and personal understanding of Russia into his analysis of the United States. What he describes could, and very well has, happened to Russia or the former USSR so he assumes that we are under the same cultural and racial pressures in the United States.

It is also true the other way. When the USSR fell apart, we in the West took it a wholesale rejection of Communism and Authoritarianism. In some cases this may be true, but overall it is not. We think that way because that is how we would react, and it fits with our Revolutionary experience. After living there for a while and speaking with the people who lived in the Russian equivalent of Kansas, I was quite surprised that, for the most part, they hadn’t rejected much of their past. They liked a little more religious freedom and more availability of goods, but they all still had mini statues of Lenin on their mantles and were convinced that Stalin ruined the great experiment, and it could have been successful otherwise. This kind of shocked me.

The rise of Putin was not shocking at all after knowing what I know of the Russian psyche. It is not that I am super enlightened, its just that I was able to peel back my American goggles just a bit based on personal experience.

One of the biggest mistakes that we make as humans is assuming that everybody shares the same motivations, desires, and thought processes as everyone else.

Average Joe,

We tried that already, it wasn’t successful. See Articles of Confederation

By: Wooden Teeth

Wooden Teeth — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:37:47 +0000

Good time to re-read James Madison’s notes on the 1787 convention. You all remember they barely got the thing put together in the first place, right?

Six parts…wow, that’s just over the top. I think it’s funny how people from nations that don’t conduct regular elections, and don’t have myriad levels of elected government, think that there’s some big revolution in the works.

Thank the nature of our republic…a constant state of power changing hands at all levels which often serves no other purpose than to prevent all-out revolution. And that’s a noble purpose in itself.

By: Average Joe

Average Joe — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:21:24 +0000

We Arizonans might be a lot better off if we were one of 50 states or of a regional voluntary confederation of several states, each responsible generally for itself own governance with federal interference, with provision for a common defense of all 50 states and a commonality of criminal law enforcement and adjudication. No more paying taxes used to benefit those in NYC, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles or San Francisco. We don’t have much in common with anyone in those cities anyway. Let them set their own welfare and benefits systems and determine the means to pay for it among their own citizens.

Just my musing on a slow day. Comments welcome.

By: DSW

DSW — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:54:09 +0000

I'm still in favor of straightening out the southern boundary of the Gadsen Purchase deal so Arizona can get a seaport at Rocky Point!

By: SonoranSam

SonoranSam — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:08:11 +0000

Do any of you Tucsonans remember the “Free Baja Arizona” movement?

By: George of the Desert

George of the Desert — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:36:06 +0000

I take “dibs” on Sedona. Y’all can have the rest.

By: The Klute

The Klute — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:26:03 +0000

Yeah, I played a video game like that once called “Shattered Union”. I totally rocked as Pacifica.

By: framer

framer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:01:57 +0000

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!

It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: “the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall”, “john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache”. It’s twelve o’clock, American, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.
[the Battle Hymn of the Republic begins to play]