CDN Interest/Participation in USA Politics: Why?

[Mr_He]

@GuyInTaiwan

It has everything to do with (not) willing away U.S. influence. Everyone loves to complain about the U.S., its crappy culture, etc. Yet I notice that there’s a McDonald’s on every street corner, kids listen to rap and watch American action movies, and hell, they even write and speak American English. If people didn’t support the U.S. at these levels, it wouldn’t have the influence it does.

The fact - which can’t be willed away - is that the US is by far the greatest economic and political power globally.

You won’t be able to will that away by boycotting mickey d.

[GuyInTaiwan]

@Mr He

[quote=“GuyInTaiwan”]It has everything to do with (not) willing away U.S. influence. Everyone loves to complain about the U.S., its crappy culture, etc. Yet I notice that there’s a McDonald’s on every street corner, kids listen to rap and watch American action movies, and hell, they even write and speak American English. If people didn’t support the U.S. at these levels, it wouldn’t have the influence it does.

The fact - which can’t be willed away - is that the US is by far the greatest economic and political power globally.

You won’t be able to will that away by boycotting mickey d.[/quote]

Of course you will. If you do it to enough products or companies based in a particular country, you effectively cripple it. This has always been the whole point of surrounding an enemy’s ports and not letting anything in or out. It’s merely the modern equivalent of that.

Logically, if B and C trade only amongst themselves and boycott A (or with D, E, etc. who also boycott A) then A ceases to have any trade and an economy.

Yeah, it would hurt Europe to across the board completely cut themselves off from America, but they’re a relatively huge trading bloc. Obviously much harder for smaller countries to do it, though still possible. That would be called putting one’s money where one’s mouth is though. If we’re all so concerned with the U.S. in the rest of the world, be it Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan or wherever, then why don’t we put our money where our mouths are? Because we’re as stupid, fat and greedy as the Yanks, or only marginally better.

[Mr_He]

@GuyInTaiwan

[quote=“Mr He”][quote=“GuyInTaiwan”]It has everything to do with (not) willing away U.S. influence. Everyone loves to complain about the U.S., its crappy culture, etc. Yet I notice that there’s a McDonald’s on every street corner, kids listen to rap and watch American action movies, and hell, they even write and speak American English. If people didn’t support the U.S. at these levels, it wouldn’t have the influence it does.

The fact - which can’t be willed away - is that the US is by far the greatest economic and political power globally.

You won’t be able to will that away by boycotting mickey d.[/quote]

Of course you will. If you do it to enough products or companies based in a particular country, you effectively cripple it. This has always been the whole point of surrounding an enemy’s ports and not letting anything in or out. It’s merely the modern equivalent of that.

Logically, if B and C trade only amongst themselves and boycott A (or with D, E, etc. who also boycott A) then A ceases to have any trade and an economy.

Yeah, it would hurt Europe to across the board completely cut themselves off from America, but they’re a relatively huge trading bloc. Obviously much harder for smaller countries to do it, though still possible. That would be called putting one’s money where one’s mouth is though. If we’re all so concerned with the U.S. in the rest of the world, be it Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan or wherever, then why don’t we put our money where our mouths are? Because we’re as stupid, fat and greedy as the Yanks, or only marginally better.[/quote]

Why don’t we all work together EU, US, Australia, NZ, Japan, China, Russia, even Canada and try to sort the current mess and make sure taht it does not happen again?

Taht would be so much better for all.

Don’t forget that the times of most progress for mankind have been the ones where goods and ideas flowed the most freely. Also, don’t forget that the time o most misery was when verious countries tried to isolate themselves from the fallouts of problems in other countries. Tang China and the 1930’s respectively are examples of those 2 extremes.