Only 15% of Canadians would vote for Bush.
If this isn't proof that Canadians are smarter than Americans, I don't know what is. I've said in passing more than once that I'd rather live in Canada than America right now. I think a lot of this is that I see the problems that exist in America as a problem of culture and lack of group social principles. While I admit that every nation has their share of politics and social problems, what I've seen within the borders of Canada agrees with me socially and politically more than the somewhat more right-wing, environmentally insane politics of the current presidency.
I liked Clinton and Gore, and I'll tell you why -- they valued two things I really cared about -- education and the environment. They focused more on domestic issues rather than international ones. Bush and Cheney only seem to care about military muscle. Their environmental policies seeks to destroy any hope of wildlife preservation. I've always felt that the President should be looking out for his country, but Bush's actions are entirely contrary to that. As the biggest political ambassador to the world, he's presented himself as a paranoid, war-mongering tyrant -- rather than a friend to all nations.
When I went for my IRS audit a few months ago, the auditor pulled out what I could only assume was my Patriot Act file -- over 50 pages of inaccurate connections and associations. It's almost the same data as what's in credit reports, but with all sorts of other information too, such as possible family relatives, their addresses, your neighbors, their neighbors, etc. It's a crude Friendster-like social network profile. Unlike Friendster, there's no permissions, no confirmations that the person they're linking you to is associated to you in any way.
Yesterday on Orkut, I was asked to be added as a friend by someone I didn't know. This is not the first time it's happened to me, and I've been mistaken for other people before. My name, even with the S as the middle initial, is super common.
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