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Originally Posted by goldorak
What americans need is a true representative democracy (and direct election of the president) with a number of viable political parties.
Not 2 that are for all practical purposes the same.
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Right, like having multiple parties has really improved the quality of European governments.
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What europeans need is to forgo all this crazy nonsense of being more like americans (with all due respect to you).
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Yes, definitely, I dislike seeing European countries try to remake themselves as little Americas as much as I dislike seeing Americans try to turn us into copies of the countries our ancestors left behind.
But conversely and with all due respect right back atcha, what Europeans need to do is put your own houses in order first before you start dispensing advice to us.
If you're not us then we're not you either, and therefore your political advice, which makes perfect sense
to you is nearly always off the mark when it's applied to
our form of government.
We'll elect our President as prescribed by our constitution, which BTW is a lot more directly than European equivalents appointed by the ruling party du jour. We'll also have as many political parties as we want and we'll run our society the way we want.
You Europeans should do the same and
vive la différence. As strange as it may seem I think being a
bit different makes us our cross Atlantic ties stronger than weaker.