Liberal Europeans Demand Right to Vote in U.S. Elections

Between 200,000 and 225,000 Americans, depending on the weather, make an initial selection today between the presidential candidates. That handful of voters also lives in a vast, but very sparsely populated rural state, typically for a portion of the United States, but far from representative of the whole country. That is one of many reasons why the American electoral system by the Americans themselves under fire.

The voters of Iowa are not final choice. It is their compatriots in other states completely free another vote, but history shows that the signal from Iowa powerful enough to the course of the race to change. What therefore happens today in Iowa, is important for the United States.

And for the world. Because the voters of Iowa today also make a selection between the first applicant world leaders. And they are doing that, primarily, on the basis of personality, religion and domestic concerns. Even as a 'foreign policy' already plays a prominent role in a campaign, this policy is assessed from the American self-interest.

But American presidential elections are not "internal affairs". American decisions are up to the farthest corner of the globe felt. The American hypotheekrentecrisis affects banks in Europe. The onstelpbare American thirst for oil makes sjeiks Arab empire. The American reluctance to go to greener life, does ice melt at the North Pole and flooding coastal areas in Asia. A weakened dollar and a towering budget deficit burden on the world economy.

The world should therefore be given a voice. Because the current situation is a blatant case of taxation without representation, which the Americans rebelled in 1776.

But the world gets no vote. The best thing we can expect is that the Americans choose a leader who is aware of the responsibility of the United States, as a superpower, for the rest of mankind.

The international community allowed the American hegemony more or less keep in check through international consultative, and the accompanying judicial agreements. But that system is in crisis, partly caused by the current American president. His successor must re willing and able to lead the international community through multilateral institutions and the will to those bodies to help strengthen and effective. That is crucial for the international welfare and safety.

And so the world can only hope that the handful of Americans in the empty heart of the US today is the correct voting indicates the rest of the United States.