Approach again in 2004, Guardian plonker Johnathan Freedland prompt that voters exterior the US must be allowed to vote in that 12 months’s US election:
Who may actually describe the 2004 contest of George Bush and John Kerry as a home affair? There is a motive why each newspaper on the earth can have the identical story on its entrance web page on November 3. This election might be decisive not only for america however for the way forward for the world …
So maybe it is time to make a modest proposal. If everybody on the earth might be affected by this election, should not everybody on the earth have a vote?
Twenty years after Freedland’s “modest proposal”, right here’s Guardian Australia voluntary admission Paul Daley suggesting a lot the identical factor:
Australians, like folks the world over who care about democracy and international safety, actually ought to get a vote within the forthcoming US election, so important is it to our geopolitical and strategic pursuits.
Let’s hope Daley’s editors take this additional. In 2004, that Freedland piece – or, moderately, a sure response to that piece – led the Guardian to aim a world US election hijacking.
It didn’t work out as they’d hoped. Here is the complete story.