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Why doesn't the populace rise up and demand democratic responsibility from their elected officials? In the US we have this type of thing going on with an immigration bill. For the last two weeks I have called my elected representative and called for its defeat. I am very angry that they still plan to shove it down our throats.
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Every system and culture has its strengths and its weaknesses. The US were founded as a democracy, the states in europe not. And that can be seen in many details. For example its is not strange that in the US the senators of the same party as the president vote against his proposals if they really think they are not for the benefit of their electors. Representation of the voters is much better in the US, and I envy how your candidates and elected representants have always somehow a path open for the electors to talk to them. Here in Europe it is unfortunately mainly a matter of parties and the individual elected representants don't have much freedom of vote. This is therefore IMO not a democracy but a oligarchy of parties. On the other hand the US system also has its weaknesses (Above all the problem that winning elections is many times a matter of money, plain and simply, due to the costs of the campaign), but overall I would prefer a "Presidential" one like yours or the french one instead of what we have in Spain, for example
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