Also know this.... as it seems to me, historically and inevitably, proper and thorough actions to avoid potential catastrophes are never taken until it is too late. It's a human condition mostly rooted by the fog money and politics creates. And if nothing is done to avoid such happenings as this flood in New Orleans and elswhere, and this being a sort of 'first' for the country to deal with the aftermath, it explains the pathetic flow of command and reason that followed. It sickens me. But many many are at fault.... we, as humans, must evolve faster.
I dreamed last night that NYC flooded due to a hurricane. I was in a helicopter seeing all of it. Their were people trapped in buildings and on roof tops trying to wave me down to rescue them. I got the impression that it was several days or weeks after the flood.
The people I saw were of all race and color. All seemingly looking and feeling betrayed by their country.
This dream, as i realized this morning, made me feel that all the racial issues bubbling around the Katrina media news is less than accurate and this level of devastation in any city would yield similar results from an unprepared country and equally unprepared cities within it... whether it is the elite NYC or anywhere else.
Maybe I am wrong and the government truly didnt care to act as fast as they could because of race, but even just typing that now, here, seems very inaccurate and noisy.
sull
On 9/5/05, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deirdre,
Are you saying that if more people vote, someone else would be elected
and this sort of thing would not happen?
I see no reason to believe that. It would seem that basic statistics is
against you on this (FWIW)
I know of no theory that postulates: "If all the people who did not vote
had voted, then elections would come out different."
I DO think that there may be many benefits from getting people more
involved with elections (more dialog, more participation, more vlogs!, etc)
But I also feel that it will take more than votes to change the "results".
I also feel that the difference you point out is important to many: it
is our choice to vote or not!
at least for the moment ;)
The main point is this: with big voter turnouts or not, both places
suffered horribly.
markus
Deirdre Straughan wrote:
> Why? Because India, unlike the US, is a truly functioning democracy.
> India's hundreds of millions of poor and/or illiterate people VOTE,
> and have considerable political clout.
>
> Everybody's mad at Bush now, for good reason. But, hey, folks, he was
> democratically elected by the American people.
>
> Or was he?
>
> Less than half of Americans voted in the last presidential election,
> and many of those who didn't vote are the poor, young, and anyone else
> who feels powerless. I don't think American culture encourages people
> to vote, whereas n many European countries, it is AGAINST THE LAW not to.
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