(June 27, 2012 at 10:52 pm)Annik Wrote: Want a more fair US election? Get rid of the electoral college. We don't need it anymore and it's just screwing us over. A president can win without gaining the majority of votes because the system is so fucking broken.
Under the parliamentary system used by UK,Australia and others, there is no specifically elected national leader.Our Prime Minster is the leader of whichever party has majority needed to form government. He/she is a normal member of the Lower House,and may be removed by the party any time.Our incumbent incompetent, Lady Macbeth (Julia Gillard) came to power by staging a coup against the former PM, Tin Tin (Kevin Rudd)
Under our system,a lame duck leader or government is not possible.If a leader is hopeless,the party simply removes him .Obama would be long gone under our system.Bush would never have been leader of his party,not because he was so stupid, but because Aussies hate nepotism.
If a government is unable to govern, both houses are dissolved and a general election is called. That last happened here in 1975.
