Didn’t Belgium go for almost 3 years without a government a while back? Meanwhile France is on their 5th prime minister in 2 years. I think the issue is that Democracy is entirely incompatible with capitalism.
I really dislike voting for parties rather than individuals. I realize parties are inevitable, but I hate them. I want to elect an individual who I trust to fight hard for the things I want and to have the wisdom to make compromises—even painful ones—to achieve a greater good.
Like with Obama, I trust that he had to make some difficult choices and did the best he could, even when I vehemently disagreed with some of them. Literally the only President in my lifetime I feel that way about, and the party would never have made him President. Or PM, I suppose it would be.
I’m not saying the benefits of parliamentary systems wouldn’t outweigh the harms, but they definitely aren’t perfect.
I thought they elected a party and the party chooses who leads it? Have to be honest I don’t follow foreign politics as well as I should. But the same thing applies at a local level. I want to vote for individual representatives and senators. At whatever level I don’t want a bunch of out of touch rich folks deciding who best represents my individual interests.
You’re right. I had some fundamental misunderstandings of the system. My apologies. I’ll go rethink things. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
Parliamentary system seems superior in every single way to what we have here.
Didn’t Belgium go for almost 3 years without a government a while back? Meanwhile France is on their 5th prime minister in 2 years. I think the issue is that Democracy is entirely incompatible with capitalism.
I never said it was perfect, but it is better if only for the fact that it allows for more than two parties.
I really dislike voting for parties rather than individuals. I realize parties are inevitable, but I hate them. I want to elect an individual who I trust to fight hard for the things I want and to have the wisdom to make compromises—even painful ones—to achieve a greater good.
Like with Obama, I trust that he had to make some difficult choices and did the best he could, even when I vehemently disagreed with some of them. Literally the only President in my lifetime I feel that way about, and the party would never have made him President. Or PM, I suppose it would be.
I’m not saying the benefits of parliamentary systems wouldn’t outweigh the harms, but they definitely aren’t perfect.
At least parliamentary system allows for more than two parties.
Also, people do directly vote for their MPs in most systems.
I thought they elected a party and the party chooses who leads it? Have to be honest I don’t follow foreign politics as well as I should. But the same thing applies at a local level. I want to vote for individual representatives and senators. At whatever level I don’t want a bunch of out of touch rich folks deciding who best represents my individual interests.
You should refresh your memory on what a parliamentary system actually is…
You’re right. I had some fundamental misunderstandings of the system. My apologies. I’ll go rethink things. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
No worries… No system is perfect, but I personally think there are a lot of benefits to it over what we currently have in the US.
Even though most countries (that I know of) have a similar personality cult, the head guy has never as much power as POTUS.