h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I despise republican politicians! They represent everything that is wrong with my country today. They have screwed up the economy, meddled in the affairs of another country, caused no little embarrassment for us, and to top it all off, they elected the most incompetent person imaginable to lead our country. Now, our state is screwed up once again due to their bumbling indiscretions. I knew as soon as our state elected a republican governor, we'd be screwed, and we are! Boo, I say, BOOOOO! Whew, that felt good! Have a lovely day!

Neutrino

And while we're on the subject, the Democrats, who provided our state governor, completely screwed up the state economy, and generally represent everything *else* that's wrong with the country.

If we could just take all the democrats and republicans, bundle them up into a giant net, and beat them with baseball bats until they've mostly liquified, we'll have gotten an excellent start on fixing this place.

The American political system is flawed for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it is really represented by only two parties, both right-wing, but one more right-wing that the other, while in Britain we're represented by one party, both conservative .

Secondly, in the US of A, you have to be very rich to get anywhere in politics. You have to fund your own campaigns, more or less. In Britain, the party funds the campaign as we elect a party into government rather than voting for a particular individual to run the country. ie We voted for Labour to come into power rather than Tony Blair to be Prime Minister, while in America you voted for Al Gore for President and allegedly the most powerful man in the world and got George Dubya Bush. The upshot is that only the well off are truly represented and the unprivelleged are neglected. While in Britian the poor are potentially represented and subsequently ignored.

A number of compaints concerning American politics, primarily from Americans themseleves, could be rememedied if socialist ideals could be represented as looking after the 'working classes' will ultimately reflect on society as a whole, a 'bottom-up' approach to improving society. Unfortunately, many Americans equate socialist ideals with communism even though they are two entirely different things. It is said that socialism poses a threat to capitalism and free-trade. But many European countries, including France and Sweden, have thriving economies with socialist governments. If America took more interest in trying to look after its own underprivelleged rather than trying to screw every dime and nickel out of them, then perhaps many countries would look more kindly upon the USA.