American Political System

[LeftEyeNine]

1. Is it really bi-polar or some gone missing from public awareness (especially from foreigners like us) ?
2. If bi-polar, WHY (the heck) ?
3. How do you think it contributes to/degrades the representation of the public ?
4. What kind of a verdict would you give considering its pros and cons ? Would you personally advise its implementation in another country ?

[Major Robert Dump]

American politics make me sick. Like literally, sick to my stomach. Read the comments at the bottom of a Yahoo article sometime. Everyone has an opinion, and they are all wrong. The internet mixed with all these pundit talking heads has really turned this country into a sound byte nation where history and facts play no part in one's overall political alignment. It doesn't matter how bad your party screwed up the last time, it's always the current guys fault. It doesn't matter how bad your party acts, the other party always acts worse.

1. By bi polar I think u mean 2 politcal parties. Yes.

2. It is like that so spoiled, lazy, fat Americans can have simplicity in their choices (well, the 40% of adults who actually vote). Lump ideas that have no common link together and throw them under one party for simplicity sake. We don't like to read, we don't like to remember the past, we like to start fresh and anew every 2,4,6,8 years so we can change the world all over again. This is why redemption stories are so goshed darned popular with Americans, it makes us feel better for screwing the rest of the world up along with ourselves.

3. People with nice houses, plenty to watch on television, plenty of food, a car to drive and mindless sports to drool over tend to not care how they are represented as long as nothing happens that is an inconvenience to them. It's quite genius, really, the people who set the country in this direction. I mean whose gonna notice we are being robbed blind by Washington and their corporate cronies when all them good tv shows are on?????

4. I think I already answered that from the tone of my post. As far as considering i for others countires: YES, FOR OUR ENEMIES. There would be no better method of bringing Iran to it's knees

[LeftEyeNine]

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "the last padishah" is dreaming of this -especially the presidency.

You can't imagine how consumerist prosperity is used in order to achieve such bi-polar system. Every other day I wake up, I wake up to a more USA'ed Turkey.

I knew we were enemies all along

[Major Robert Dump]

Humans engage in conflict by nature. You pacify them, and make their conflict one of a fabricated political game, where no one can ever win. The two-party political system is a ploy to pacify the public while behind closed doors while the real power brokers from both parties laugh it up and count their money. Presidents protect previous presidents. A Senators job is to implement as little change as humanly possible to maintain status quo, and when they do change something it is usually the bare minimum of what is required to get re-relected or a favor for croney.

The Bildeberg group is not a fantasy, and until the internet started bringing attention to them they had decades of planning and hoopla behind closed doors and no one was the wiser. Once the public gets wind, public figures started dropping out of meetings because it was bad press. Even our golden boy president has been engaged in "the business" since right out of college.

** you ain't my enemy :)

[drone]

“I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'”
- Bill Hicks

[Lemur]

There's a lot that could be improved. Proportional representation in the Congress would be a good thing. Moving all redistricting to committees with some insulation from raw partisanship would be a good thing. Dropping speed limits on our freeways and creating an American autobahn would be most excellent.

Lots of simple fixes would help, too. There's a lot of tussle over which states go first in our presidential primaries. Just ruling that each state would go in the order of voter participation would be an improvement. Term limits in Congress would be good. Finding some mechanism to FORCE Congress to vote to approve/disapprove every time we get into a shooting war would be great. I could go on ...

[Furunculus]

“I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'”
- Bill Hicks

^ essentially why i was unconcerned as a mild McCain supporter that Obama won the presidency; i didn't believe the 'change' message and figured that in america interests would trump ideology.