Holy crap this Rockie Cantais guy uses far too many exclamation points, too many caps and begins too many sentences with LOL or LMAO. Moving on...

Quote Originally Posted by Rockie Cantais View Post
Enough, we can go around in circles until the world ends! I'm just happy to say that we agree that we need an educated society who wants to put the good of the society first. What form of government they pick is up to that each individual group. Trust me I have no desire to tell anyone country how they need to run their government.
And the form of government the United States of America chose was that of the Democratic Party under the leadership of Obama. And then from what I read, you rail on the existing democratically elected government...? I'm confused, you have no desire to do what now? Note that the American government is not your personal government, they aren't there to accommodate you exclusively, they're there to accommodate the American people as a whole, if America as a whole don't like the government, they can vote in a new one.

Now the largest problem with the US system, which for some reason very few Americans realize, is the lack of choice. Now, if forced to choose, I would prefer the Democrats to the Republicans by quite a fair margin, but to be honest, voting in America is like being stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. "Left" for some reason encompasses government control of the economy and libertarianism, while the "right" encompasses both free market economy and authoritarianism. It completely disregards the level of each the people would like.

That is to say, unless political parties are completely abolished, there can be no democracy. At the very least, political parties need to be limited in size.

Anyway, to the point of the right or the left being bad. It's my view that politicians in the States are notoriously corrupt, what with unlimited campaign donations from large corporations, and what with being a politician being an actual career path. People who make a career out of pandering and running smear campaigns run your country. It's also my belief that Obama is different in this sense. He is a principled man, understanding that America lags far behind its peers in welfare and basic infrastructure. He's determined to change all this and bring the States up to the standard of its fellow Western nations. However all those principles stop him from seeing that now is not the time for sweeping changes. He's a naive man who believes that good actions can never be done at the wrong time, and that's what makes him a great man, and a crappy leader. Though I would take that over Bush or Palin any day.