I don't mean high ground in a personal sense; I mean it in a national sense. It's quite clear to me that Canada has done a better job this millennium of living up to stereotypically American ideals than America has.
Your sense that no one will listen to you is mirrored here; a staggering percentage of people in this country see no further than a week or two into the future, and no distance at all into the past, and so have no problem approving of an administration whose policies are wildly counterindicated by both.
Despite this, I'm hopeful the midterm elections next month will cripple Bush at a stroke by removing his party's majority in Congress. Presidents do not make law; not even this Congress could be foolish enough to allow that to happen. So, should he find himself in Clinton's position -- surrounded on all sides by a hostile party which has no incentive to give him what he wants -- things may actually get better for the US.
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:48 am (UTC)Your sense that no one will listen to you is mirrored here; a staggering percentage of people in this country see no further than a week or two into the future, and no distance at all into the past, and so have no problem approving of an administration whose policies are wildly counterindicated by both.
Despite this, I'm hopeful the midterm elections next month will cripple Bush at a stroke by removing his party's majority in Congress. Presidents do not make law; not even this Congress could be foolish enough to allow that to happen. So, should he find himself in Clinton's position -- surrounded on all sides by a hostile party which has no incentive to give him what he wants -- things may actually get better for the US.