i wonder if there's something in the culture that seems to make us governments decide compulsion is more persuasive than cajolery and that hierarchy is a more effective system than society.
for myself, i am generally an evolutionary gradualist and a respecter of frontiers, fences and differences. which means i often find us government actions, which seem sometimes to issue from a pulpit, to be superior, pushy and off-putting.
being and being seen to be equal and persuading through reason rather than power are, in my view, far and away the most effective ways to align one country's ideas with another's.
Patient process.
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