I really don't know why I started reading about the presidential elections in USA 2 years ago. During that time I was living in Spain as an exchange student and had just ordered TIME magazine. Probably I just had too much spare time so I started reading articles about Hillary and other candidates.
I know I'm quite critical of everything that happens in US but dear readers don't take it personally. I'm extremely critical towards many other things as well. I analyze everything I read, see, and hear and finally I glue all gathered information to one giant piece of modern art and hope that my fragile installation holds.
From time to time this installation crashes down and when that happens I have to admit that my view of the world was wrong. After the crash I start rebuilding from the scratches. The higher the installation gets the harder it is for me to admit I was wrong. Because of multiple crashes I've become quite humble. Nowadays I like building wide things instead of high ones. I have broadened my perspective of life so to speak or as a wannabe photographer would put it - broadened my histogram.
The last two years have shown me that USA is not the ultimate evil, neither are Islamic countries or anything else for that matter. For me, USA is more like the ultimate battle ground between good and bad (what ever those things are). USA is really the country where everything can happen. A man can rule the country for 8 years without ever admitting that some of his decisions have been 'unwise'.
So, these elections proved that anything is possible in USA. A black man from Honolulu will be the next president of a country that is probably more polarized than even before in it's history. Something even remotely similar could never happen here in Finland. For that I really respect USA. It's a country of great contrasts but it's still one united nation.
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Having said all this I do not understand why people want to be leaders? I think the founding fathers of USA had a vision of a perfect country or even a continent that was led by great leaders.
My Utopia is self-governance. Both of these of course are absurd visions since they would require all 7 billion people on Earth to agree upon everything.
sunnuntai 9. marraskuuta 2008
Election conclusion
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I wouldn´t say that USA is united. As a matter of fact, it´s probably more divided than ever and I wouldn´t be surprised if some conservative states would declare an indepedence of some sort. Yeah, winds of change are blowing a bit in USA, but the neo-conservative elements of the country will ensure that changes won´t be too great. Call me a cynicist or whatever, but I´m waiting for the next civil war. Even though Finland has it´s own problems, I´m happy that here any kind of civil war is much more unlikely to happen any time soon.
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