>The US govt system seems a bit weird from over here. How can you elect a government that can't govern. If the republicans don't like what Obama is doing shouldn't they be ensuring their man (or woman) gets elected next time. As I understand it this tactic usually backfires onto the non president side.


Our electorate is so caught up in preventing the 'other' party from winning that they don't realize that it doesn't matter if you vote Republican or Democrat: There is very little that actually separates these incompetent, over-spending, big-government, rights-trampling political parties.

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It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see . . .

You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?

No . . . nothing so simple . . . so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.

Odd . . . I thought you said it was a democracy.

I did. It is.

So . . . why don't the people get rid of the lizards?

It honestly doesn't occur to them . . . They've all got the vote, so they pretty much assume the government they've voted in more of less approximates the government they want.

You mean they actually vote for the lizards?

Oh, yes . . . of course.

But, why???

Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might get in.