Posted by: David Cooper
on October 24, 2002 11:12 AM
The article alludes briefly to this:
> Peru is no stranger to "stolen" elections. > Villanueva doesn't want to see any more of them > there
No country is perfect, but Peru's situation makes it easier for people like Villanueva to look past the blind patriotism that afflicts much of the human race, and see how the system fails, why it fails, and what can be done to remedy it.
In more politically stable countries like the US, nobody is really thinking about this, because the failings of the system (and are always at least some) aren't nearly as obvious to the community.
Basically, in the US and similar countries, the system just isn't broken *enough* for people to want to fix it.
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Re:what I'd like to know
Posted by: David Cooper on October 24, 2002 11:12 AM> Peru is no stranger to "stolen" elections.
> Villanueva doesn't want to see any more of them
> there
No country is perfect, but Peru's situation makes it easier for people like Villanueva to look past the blind patriotism that afflicts much of the human race, and see how the system fails, why it fails, and what can be done to remedy it.
In more politically stable countries like the US, nobody is really thinking about this, because the failings of the system (and are always at least some) aren't nearly as obvious to the community.
Basically, in the US and similar countries, the system just isn't broken *enough* for people to want to fix it.
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