Originally Posted by
Paul Keating
The problem you cats have is this presidential form of democracy you practise is flawed. The US is plagued with legislative gridlock, even when a president is elected with a clear mandate, he's still basically got to answer to a minority in the legislature, which gives idiotic ideological nutters way too much power to block solid policy. Also, because the president, once elected, will serve out his term unless he is shot or impeached, you end up with the debacle you currently have with Romney standing up straight faced and so clearly bullshitting that he's almost laughing at it himself, knowing that if he gets in he's no one to answer too. On top of that, you've got a partisan judical system adding to the fire with judgements being heavily weighted with ideology.
Because minority view points have so much power the whole system is geared towards decision making based on ideology rather than outcome.
There's arguments in this election that the rest of the western world settled 40 years ago. It's lunacy.
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