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10/05/2016 16:13:38
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Politics
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Elections
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>>>>Maybe it has more to do with how America works and not American politics works. America is such a big country in terms of population, geography, ethnic and racial groups, economic backgrounds, etc. etc. The one who is "the best candidate" for one group is "the worst" for another. So the "best candidate" is a relative term. I though Mitt Romney was very good in so many ways but the left didn't like him. So there will never be "the best candidate."
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>>>American political system is the best one money can buy. And it does.
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>>Maybe. But Trump, so far in the Primaries, proved that money does not buy winning.
>>I am currently watching a French series Marseille about politics in France/Marseille. And money is very prominent there as well (very interesting series btw, great opportunity for me to test my beginner's knowledge of french).
>>Maybe in Serbia things are very different and elections are based purely on good intentions, pursuit of well-being for all, devoid of money and corruption.
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>It is as in the old joke from radio Yerevan "in capitalism, people are exploited by other people - here it is quite the opposite". The opposite it is, in the sense that there's more money in politics than in the economy, so the ruling parties more or less have the tycoons in their pockets. Then the tycoons blackmail their employees into voting for their political sponsors, and the gov't is the largest employer anyway, so many "political activists" get a no-work or no-show jobs etc.
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>But this tossing the ball into my yard is pointless. Did I ever say that the politics in Serbia is in any way better? It's just that the US advertises its system as the best, and, well, you know my attitude toward advertising.

I view politics and system of government as "logically" connected but different "animals." I believe that system of government where you have 3 branches, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, is the best. Please, if you think there is a better system of government, let me know which one. This system of government allows this country to function in more or less efficient way despite the mess we have in the political system. From my little knowledge of Serbia, you have the same system of government. So we are pretty much in the same boat; except US is a bigger boat :)
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
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