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Originally posted by BeefontheBone@Jun 19 2005, 08:39 PM
In answer to whoever said us Europeans hate Americans, if you guys keep electing evil crappy puppets and megalomaniacs to office, and never protesting about their actions, we'll keep assuming you're all stupid (individuals we know and like excepted, obviously). I'm aware I'm exaggerating, but so were you earlier.
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And just how strongly do *you* protest Tony Blair supporting our crappy puppets and megalomaniacs? AFAIK, individual American citizens do nothing more than vote for a guy, hope he does what he says he's going to do, just like every other democratic nation's individuals. Sure, we can go out and protest and get petitions signed, but when all is said and done, that's nothing more than a useless opinion poll which really has no bearing on what the government actually decides to do.
So what can we do? We can do our best to vote the officials out who are doing these things, but that doesn't always work as planned because of the differences between the votes of the people and the votes of those in the electoral college. Or, let's say we resort to terrorism on our own people ... is that perhaps what you mean when you say "protesting?"
Because as far as I'm aware, peaceful protesting changes absolutely nothing when it comes to what elected officials decide to do with their position once they actually get elected to office.