>It works differently because your nation has a different backup and makeup and history. That does not make ours wrong for us just as it would be silly for me to pass jingoistic judgement on what works for The Netherlands, wouldn't it?
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>You guys have 5 or 6 major parties jockeying for position. Nothing gets done without a coalition. Therefore, I would expect there to be a surfeit in mud-clinging because no one knows who they will need to cooperate with next.

Oh, don't get me started on how you have to be a business millionaire, or "old money" in the US in order to be the president, or even governor. This means that the best brains MY be kept down in the lowest echelons because they can't afford to run.

Not that I'm siding with Walter, you understand. I just find your 2-party patrician "numismatocracy" system kind of strange.

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>Also, the American press corp tends to be a lot more aggressive than the European corps so, therefore, American politics tend to be reported more tabloid fashion.
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>>>Ummmm...YES. That is how we do democracy. It's how we've done it for 200 years. Apparently, it must work.
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>>>>I cry, because appearantly this is the way you do politics: mud throwing.
>>>>IOW, does this stand for a civilised democracy ?
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>>Our democracy works a little bit different then. That is why I cry.
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>>Walter,