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While Americans urge each other to carry out their civic duty and vote, non-Americans watch as they choose the leaders of the most powerful empire in human history -- a choice more consequential for most of the Earth's people than the choice of their own national leaders..../2
Some candidates want America to brazenly pursue its own interests outside the confines of international institutions; others want America to restore those institutions to buttress its interests. All agree on increasing American domination over the world.../3
- and the rest of the world's people have no say in the matter. Some consider that American domination -- or one of its forms -- is better than the alternatives (and they may be right); others will prefer to resist American hegemony (and they may be right).../4
They take sides in the international conflict system of American allies and enemies -- a conflict system that pits countries and populations against each other around the globe. Why not extend voting rights to all, and give all a say in the process -- .../5
admit all nations into the American Union, forming the United States of the World? Or devise institutions and a process, not designed as a conflict system, for all the citizens of the world to meaningfully participate in charting the course of humanity's collective development?
