...Red, your post...it kinda hurt me...in my smarts. First...the Kardashians as a political party would be impossible to ignore, largely because at that point I would be making a death-or-glory run to get to the Big Red Button to nuke the fuck out of the country because if they got elected then clearly this country would have lost its shit to the point that it needed to be destroyed before it dragged the entire human race down with it. Second, libertarians are not bad people, and if you void out the Tea Party [who are to Libertarianism what Joseph Stalin is to social-democracy], they've got some good ideas...certainly much fucking better than what the neocons have, at any rate. Third, parliament, in the US? Are you mad? We'd never get a fucking thing done! You think we have political paralysis now? PPFFWHOOOWHEEE! You ain't seen nothin' yet! Parliament would not work for us. At ALL. As the Paladin put it, every two years our government would suffer critical existence failure.
Generally-speaking, for the US, we've got a pretty DECENT system. Not the best, but we won't get the best until we deserve it, and we won't deserve it until we demand it. And we won't deserve it until we finally get our collective heads out of our asses. We've got some more growing to do. People are often pessimistic about our chances, but in truth there hasn't ever really been a system quite like ours. It has its flaws, has had its flaws, but they've been getting corrected in a lot of ways. We hit our lows but we bounce back and do better once we wake up and realize what we fucked up on. Our country is pretty malleable. We actually adapt to change fairly well, all things considered. We could be doing worse, but we could be doing better, and we tend to realize both, in our own strange little way. Thanks to rapid communication, we're much better informed than previous republics and democracies in history have been, and that's going to help us immensely going forward. Stagnation isn't going to be such a problem because ideas flow too fast for that to suck us into the quagmires of beureacracy [I can never spell that damn word right!] and total conservatism that have dragged previous electoral processes down so totally.
Generally-speaking, for the US, we've got a pretty DECENT system. Not the best, but we won't get the best until we deserve it, and we won't deserve it until we demand it. And we won't deserve it until we finally get our collective heads out of our asses. We've got some more growing to do. People are often pessimistic about our chances, but in truth there hasn't ever really been a system quite like ours. It has its flaws, has had its flaws, but they've been getting corrected in a lot of ways. We hit our lows but we bounce back and do better once we wake up and realize what we fucked up on. Our country is pretty malleable. We actually adapt to change fairly well, all things considered. We could be doing worse, but we could be doing better, and we tend to realize both, in our own strange little way. Thanks to rapid communication, we're much better informed than previous republics and democracies in history have been, and that's going to help us immensely going forward. Stagnation isn't going to be such a problem because ideas flow too fast for that to suck us into the quagmires of beureacracy [I can never spell that damn word right!] and total conservatism that have dragged previous electoral processes down so totally.
