btw, it's not American politics that are messed up! We have one of the best system of politics in the world.
HA! Yes, of course you do.
1) Doesn't it bother you sometimes that if the party you voted for doesn't win your state, then your vote doesn't count? (proportional representation is long overdue in the US)
2) Or that votes in another state may count more than yours?
3) Or that the two parties, Republicans and Democrats, have few differences between them if you look behind the gloss, and if you vote for anybody else then your vote will almost certainly not count?
4) Or that the president is elected by party members, and not by the public?
5) Or that your government has to plan ahead and look after the welfare of the country for a whopping 4 years, and not a day further, because "the next government can fix the mess that we left for them"?
6) Or that re-election hype starts a year in advance, and that huge amounts of your tax money are spent on it?
And don't tell me that "it may not be perfect, but it's one the best we have"; I can easily think of ways to change it for the better, and that's because some other countries actually DO have fairer elections than the US (Russia, for instance).
It is the PEOPLE that are messed up. Don't blame Arnold for the void in your life.
That's somewhat true. I wouldn't say that "the people are messed up", but the majority of them certainly do believe everything that their government tells them.
The government knows this, which is why you have people like Donald Rumsfeld to mislead the public.
As all cynical politicians know, it is the IMAGE of democracy which is important, not its actual realization. That's why you have news stations like CNN (which I hear is considered a "lefty" channel in the US) constantly polling the public on things like "Do you believe that Iraq has WMD?".
As if it matters what those people, who DO NOT have enough information on the matter to even make a qualified decision, think.
I hate those "discussion shows" just as much, full of brainwashed party followers:
"Do you think that we were justified in invading Iraq?"
"Yes, because now Iraqies have more freedom, and we deposed that dictator Saddam Hussein."
The once-beautiful city of Baghdad is in ruins, many Iraqis still don't have access to clean water, anarchy reigns, as does terrorism in a country where there was none, but
that's okay because they have more freedom now.
<_<
As for Ahnold, a good actor doesn't necessarily make a good governor. But we'll see what happens. I live Ontario, Canada, anyway (where thankfully the Liberals won; hopefully transportation will be government-funded now, and we'll stop the liquidation of $4.5 billion worth of government property to pay the bills :rolleyes: ), so why should I care?