Other countries’ affairs should be a bigger deal in our elections. If the US is going to play world police, then it ought to represent the people it’s policing. Since those people can’t vote, US citizens have a responsibility to learn and understand things from a global perspective and to place their interests on equal level to that of our own. If the US wasn’t so intimately involved in other countries’ affairs, you might have a point, but as it stands, prioritizing one’s own concerns over the people who are being killed and oppressed in our names is unethical and undemocratic.
Also, with just the money we’ve sent to Israel, we could end homelessness. Also, many of our police travel to Israel to be trained in their methods. The violence there also creates refugees which affects immigration. There are lots of domestic issues that are affected by foreign affairs.
I think that other countries affairs shouldn’t be this big of a deal in your elections…
Other countries’ affairs should be a bigger deal in our elections. If the US is going to play world police, then it ought to represent the people it’s policing. Since those people can’t vote, US citizens have a responsibility to learn and understand things from a global perspective and to place their interests on equal level to that of our own. If the US wasn’t so intimately involved in other countries’ affairs, you might have a point, but as it stands, prioritizing one’s own concerns over the people who are being killed and oppressed in our names is unethical and undemocratic.
Also, with just the money we’ve sent to Israel, we could end homelessness. Also, many of our police travel to Israel to be trained in their methods. The violence there also creates refugees which affects immigration. There are lots of domestic issues that are affected by foreign affairs.