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Comment preview: Two major audiences in r/politics cause it to have a much different audience than a regular subsection of American people. (And it's focused on American politics) * The first is that Reddit's userbase is still younger than any average subset of people. You ....
Comment preview: That Americans don't know much about other countries (political systems, cultures, languages etc.). Here's the deal: America is the cultural hegemon of the world. Everyone watches American movies and TV shows and listens to American music. If you turn on a ....
Comment preview: [It's a book](http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Seriously-Jeffrey-Andrew-Weinstock/dp/0791475662). "From the Back Cover: Since it came on the air in 1997, Comedy Central's top-rated animated program, South Park, has been criticized for its crude, scatological h ....
Comment preview: The US is only in relative decline, because it created a liberal post-WWII world order that enables win-win trade. Of course everyone else is catching up. That was the plan. And it's exactly what one of the guys quoted is getting at: > China is not chal ....
Comment preview: American ex-pat here. I've had discussions with non-Americans countless times which range from America's global policies to just individual state legislations, and I'm always surprised at what non-Americans know about the US. Some conversations have been f ....
Comment preview: Lots of reasons, here's a few: A) in terms of Reddit, America is the default country - for many reason mentioned below in other comments. This also applies to almost all of the internet. B) Sports. The main American sports; baseball, gridiron football, bas ....
Comment preview: First, you haven't explained why any of the problems you've listed actually lead to this supposed decline. Your view is essentially a set of loosely-related declarations without a unifying rationale. Your stated view is a measurement of American power, b ....
Comment preview: Well, might have something to do with the fact that there are as many Jews in America as there are in Israel. And that the American Jewish lobby is politically VERY powerful. That, plus apathy, the utterly broken American political system, and the corrupt ....
Comment preview: The most interesting thing I took from this article was the smart analysis of the American political psyche. Redditors might not like it (I, too, am an atheist), but U.S. politics is indelibly wrapped up in a kind of Christian eschatology. That is to say t ....
Comment preview: I agree with everything this guy says, and I'm a political science student, so I definitely am interested in politics. But I feel like some Germans need to get it in their head that, if I'm on the Stra enbahn and you hear my American accent, or if I'm out ....
Comment preview: I... don't really think that's such a great idea. They are brilliant comedians and I admire their work; but what's the point of bringing them to the center of mainstream politics? It would turn the idea of presidential debates - which are serious and impor ....
Comment preview: Anyone? Yes. The average Vietnamese person? That's much harder to assess. The North Vietnamese received backing from the Chinese, among others, who, by the 1960s after the sino soviet split, were savy political operators and participants in the global medi ....
Comment preview: I wish they would call the UN instead. Isn't this precisely why it exists? I know a lot needs to be improved & strengthened there. But can we start from the basis that a body named the United Nations is exactly the one that should be called when there' ....
Comment preview: This goes hand in hand with the fact that corporations have bought and paid for the American political system. They adjust laws to suit their best interests, and the average person has little to say about it. It is encouraging that a capitalist like Nick ....
Comment preview: Stop voting republican and democrat, just stop doing it. These are historical political parties that have sewn up the system so no other party gets a reasonable shot at power, and because no other party has a chance at power everyone votes red or blue. Rep ....
Comment preview: Because at the heart of the deepest divides in American politics is the question "Is man essentially good, corrupted by society" (at the center of Democratic philosophy) or "Is man essentially wicked, kept in control by society" (at the center of Republica ....
Comment preview: Sure I'll give it a go. For simplicity's sake I'll split it into three sections: 1) Causes; 2) Major Events; and 3) Reasons the British Lost. In terms of the Revolution's causes there is extensive debate among historians. This began with the emergence of ....
Comment preview: >Numerical disadvantage. There are a lot more black people and hispanic people in the country. So when we protest it gets a lot more attention. A huge portion of the Hispanic population is indigenous. It is only through some the bizarre logic of Coloni ....
Comment preview: ~~Yes, there is a correlation between conservatism and an ancestry of slave-owners.~~ Areas where slavery was prevalent are on average more conservative today. You should check out [this impressive study - The Political Legacy of American Slavery by Achary ....
Comment preview: A little from Column A, a little from Column B. The answer falls more in the realm of political theory than strict American history. The Declaration started getting more attention when American political parties came on the scene because it's a rhetorical ....
Comment preview: Actually, the reason Dems don't get unified support on the left is because American political parties occupy this position on the political spectrum. <---------------*----D--------R-> How would you feel as a Democrat if the closest political party yo ....
Comment preview: The problem is, that a lot of domestic American politics is of international importance. The election of an American President, for instance, has huge importance for the Middle East and South East Asia. American fiscal and monetary policy is important for ....
Comment preview: I think it's funny to see this song on Reddit, because given the political leanings of the site, I don't think people realize the message of the song. This song is fundamentally an attack on naive American liberals who, during the time of the Khmer Rouge s ....
Comment preview: Just going to put this here to stave off some of the negative criticism and give some background on the authors' credentials. Both Page and Gilens have been well-known in political science and public opinion research for years. Page and Shapiro (1992) is r ....
Comment preview: For lots of little reasons, some being: * Its a health & safety gone mad country, people are not expected to have common sense - Brits know and play on this (Not all of us, but I find it infuriating when I see it). * I don't like the fact that my tax m ....
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