Why can't we parliamentary system?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would be a great way to balkanize the united states, leading to internecine wars and greatly reducing the efficiency of our markets and economy. It would also prevent the federal government from accomplishing much of anything (take a look at India's parliamentary efficiency). We already have checks and balances to curtail the power of the majority.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Sounds like how the hunger games was set up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do realize that the number of Marxists in the US is statistically insignificant? Meanwhile a third of the GOP believes Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya. So I'm fine with shipping these climate change denying troglodytes off to Texas, Alabama and Mississippi for resettlement. Hell I'll even give them Arizona for good measure.

Obama says he deliberately sought out Marxists.

Must be true!

These are Obama's words:

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated.

[Anonymous]

These are Obama's words:

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated.

So what he avoided he actually became.

[Anonymous]

Marxist, schmarxist.

In other words, like most college students in America, Obama went through numerous phases of discovery. Big fucking whoop. If anything, I'd feel sorry for him and think there were something wrong with him if he hadn't.

You snip one quote and then try and define the entire universe by it while ignoring everything else. That's pretty stupid. Maybe you're one of the people who didn't learn anything from anyone while you were in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sick and tired of this 2 party system. I'm on the Far-Right, but I'm sure all of you guys on the Far-Left agree with me. The GOP and Dem parties don't represent the people. They represent themselves. If we had a parliamentary system, you'd get people from the Far-Rught, the Far-Left, and you'd get some in the middle. Ideally, there would be 4 parties.
1. Far-Right( ultra-conservative party for people like me)
2. Far-Left Progressive ( a true Socialist/Communist party)
3. Moderate( a true Centrist party)
4. Libertarian( a party for Libertarians)
I'd also like to see the U.S. become a lot more regional. If we had a parliamentary system, here's what I think the U.S would look like
1. Far-Right ultra-conservatives control the South
2. Far-Left Socialists/Communists controls the West Coast
3. Moderate Centrists control the Northeast
4. Libertarians control the Midwest
The federal government would have very little power. There would be a low National Sales Tax to fund things like defense. The regions( and states within the regions) can handle things like education and commerce.
I think this would be a much better system than what we have now.

Why can't we? Because this is not our system of government. If you want a parliamentary system move to Great Britain. We don't need a parliamentary system. We need Americans to start acting maturely and stop demonizing anyone who does not share their political beliefs. Our system is not broken. We, individually, are broken by our own intolerance and misguided belief that it is only the other side that is intolerant.

[Anonymous]

^^^not Great Britian--auto correct did a major screwup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sick and tired of this 2 party system. I'm on the Far-Right, but I'm sure all of you guys on the Far-Left agree with me. The GOP and Dem parties don't represent the people. They represent themselves. If we had a parliamentary system, you'd get people from the Far-Rught, the Far-Left, and you'd get some in the middle. Ideally, there would be 4 parties.
1. Far-Right( ultra-conservative party for people like me)
2. Far-Left Progressive ( a true Socialist/Communist party)
3. Moderate( a true Centrist party)
4. Libertarian( a party for Libertarians)
I'd also like to see the U.S. become a lot more regional. If we had a parliamentary system, here's what I think the U.S would look like
1. Far-Right ultra-conservatives control the South
2. Far-Left Socialists/Communists controls the West Coast
3. Moderate Centrists control the Northeast
4. Libertarians control the Midwest
The federal government would have very little power. There would be a low National Sales Tax to fund things like defense. The regions( and states within the regions) can handle things like education and commerce.
I think this would be a much better system than what we have now.

Why can't we? Because this is not our system of government. If you want a parliamentary system move to Great Britain. We don't need a parliamentary system. We need Americans to start acting maturely and stop demonizing anyone who does not share their political beliefs. Our system is not broken. We, individually, are broken by our own intolerance and misguided belief that it is only the other side that is intolerant.

Intolerance is a right-wing industry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do realize that the number of Marxists in the US is statistically insignificant? Meanwhile a third of the GOP believes Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya. So I'm fine with shipping these climate change denying troglodytes off to Texas, Alabama and Mississippi for resettlement. Hell I'll even give them Arizona for good measure.

Obama says he deliberately sought out Marxists.

What, all twelve of them?

Romney definitely courted the birther vote.

[Anonymous]

You could t swing a dead cat at Columbia in the early 80's without knocking over a pack of UWS Marxists. Not.