Dan Drake wrote,
Well, I wasn't trying to start a discussion of
what Americans
are really
like; quite the reverse. But I think both of these positions
are largely
right, as was the one I expressed before. Here's the
amazing, unheard-of
secret: not all Americans think alike all the time. That was
the point of my post.
Still, consider this: a person may believe that his country
does something better than most of the world does (to be
concrete, let's take the matter
of having an independent judiciary that is largely in the
hands of people
who understand the concept of due process of law and even
approve of it),
and he may even be right; but when he comes face to face with
the places
that really are worse, the reality may be shocking. Thus I
reconcile the
two positions.
Dan, would you please weave this insight into a Wikipedia article about
America or Americans? Or start a new article called [[American concepts
of justice]]? Or maybe put this into [[independent judiciary]], as part
of a series on [[American government]]?
I think it's important for the Wikipedia articles to reflect that fact
that many Americans take just the attitude you described above:
that America "does something better than most of the world does" by
"having an independent judiciary that is largely in the hands of
people
who understand the concept of due process of law and even approve of
it"
Ed Poor