Hey Texas, smarten up.

Yes, because if we try to elect anyone else, they scream that we're throwing away votes and shouldn't have voted at all.
 
If I'd run I would be the best president EVER! No one will elect me though, i'm not charismatic enough and too radically progressive with a few libertarian ideas.
*goes in a corner to cry at his political future*
I will write up my political program for fun these days and post it on some forums to see if based on that people would vote for me, just for the lolz
 
Captain Beard said:
Yes, because if we try to elect anyone else, they scream that we're throwing away votes and shouldn't have voted at all.
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Exactly. Your two majour parties may be political enemies, but they know damn well that as long as they can keep the two-party-system intact, they have a 50% chance of winning the presidential elections. On the one hand, it blocks off parties of the type of "standing in the back dressed stupidly and looking stupid-party", but every possible fresh idea is crushed before it even has a chance to reach the people.

Lunar Still said:
Not necessarily. It's the fact that both are basically the same that really pisses me off.
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Well, I can hardly proclaim myself an expert on American politicians, but yeah, that's the impression I've been getting as well - it seems like you can only vote Republican or More Republican. At least, that's the impression I get.

In fact, it's gone so far that many Americans appear to consider "socialism" a dirty word, as if it's some tyrannical scheme from the 1950s Eastblock. Same goes for "liberalism", by the way. Tons of people who use that word as an insult don't even know what liberalism is: the support of a free market and the discouraging of state interference with the economy. Whilst many Americans seem to think liberals are all tree-hugging hippies.
 
flying_whale said:
If I'd run I would be the best president EVER! No one will elect me though, i'm not charismatic enough and too radically progressive with a few libertarian ideas.
*goes in a corner to cry at his political future*
I will write up my political program for fun these days and post it on some forums to see if based on that people would vote for me, just for the lolz
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Except you're about as American as Ahnuld.
 
El Stormo said:
Exactly. Your two majour parties may be political enemies, but they know damn well that as long as they can keep the two-party-system intact, they have a 50% chance of winning the presidential elections. On the one hand, it blocks off parties of the type of "standing in the back dressed stupidly and looking stupid-party", but every possible fresh idea is crushed before it even has a chance to reach the people.


Well, I can hardly proclaim myself an expert on American politicians, but yeah, that's the impression I've been getting as well - it seems like you can only vote Republican or More Republican. At least, that's the impression I get.

In fact, it's gone so far that many Americans appear to consider "socialism" a dirty word, as if it's some tyrannical scheme from the 1950s Eastblock. Same goes for "liberalism", by the way. Tons of people who use that word as an insult don't even know what liberalism is: the support of a free market and the discouraging of state interference with the economy. Whilst many Americans seem to think liberals are all tree-hugging hippies.
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The same goes for conservatives - nobody knows what a fiscally responsible politician is. Everyone has to spend tons of money on bullshit projects so they can keep their funding high. A sane person would think that if a Rottweiler was too big, they should get a smaller dog - American 'conservatives' just think they can starve the Rott until it gets small enough, and blame the dog food companies when it doesn't work.

Americans seem to have a different idea of liberalism entirely - that fits with 'classical liberalism', but the American 'liberal' decides that the word is an order to be liberal with government involvement.

And there is something wrong when it needs to be said that Texas is a stupid, stupid state.

Jeff
 
Reminiscence said:
Americans don't know what kilos are.
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A kilogram is a unit of measurement equal to the mass of a cubic decimeter of water at its point of maximum density.

American's aren't really stupider than anyone else, we just face major financial hurdles converting to the SI system.

El Stormo said:
Okay, my first step would be outlawing all upper body clothes for women ages 18-30 and with a weight of less than 80 kilograms.
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Why limit the law to upper body clothes?
 
flying_whale said:
If I'd run I would be the best president EVER! No one will elect me though, i'm not charismatic enough and too radically progressive with a few libertarian ideas.
*goes in a corner to cry at his political future*
I will write up my political program for fun these days and post it on some forums to see if based on that people would vote for me, just for the lolz
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're a dumb fucking terrorist.
 
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