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Americas political structure versus a parliamentary system


If America is the best nation with best system, isn’t it interesting that they introduce a parliamentary system in the nations they “liberate”?

Is that evidence that their system isn’t the best?

One positive thing that Americans have is locking in their president to a term, instead of a party being able to meet and choose a new leader.

In a parliamentary system, you vote for a party and never the leader, even if you think you are.

Presidents often have a rocky first two years, perhaps Reagan would have been rolled in 83 had he been a Prime Minister.

Trump may have been rolled as well.

I prefer the voters choosing their nations leader.

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The 'Brexit' is an education for is living in the USA. The parlimentary system is confusing to us, but very interesting in it's differences.

I assume that the parlimentary system is introduced in fledgling democracies because if they went the Presidential route, it is more likely that new leader might scrap the Constitution and become a autocratic ruler or dictator.

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I can't say which system is better, but one thing we can say is that every nation in Latin America and in the Philippines that imitated our system has not been very successful. Whether they would have been more successful with a Parliamentary system isn't clear by any means either.

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No, those decisions typically result from a combination of variables, many of them local. Regardless, while it might be a mistake it doesn't constitute an admission that the US system is somehow inferior, and wouldn't be proof of that even if the US officials involved wrongly believed it to be true. I would have preferred an American style system in Iraq.

In general I prefer the US system because it has more checks and balances and is less prone to sudden, radical swings. It combines the benefits of a strong executive, directly elected by the nation, "locked in" as you say, able to handle functions like national security and law enforcement with some independence from the legislature, while limiting the scope of his power more than a parliamentary system does a PM in the short run when he has near absolute power as head of the party running both the legislature and executive functions. One can argue the American system has the best of both worlds in comparison.

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There are a few keys to our system that make it work.

Number One: the constitution is everything. A document designed to limit government power and allow people the freedom to choose for themselves. This is why the communist run Democrat party hates the constitution so much. They need an authoritarian system to push their trash no one wants.

Number two. An honest and legitimate free press. Unfortunately our press was infiltrated and corrupted by anti American communists in the late 50s and has resulted in what we have today. A communist run media that coordinates and collaborates with the communist run Democrat party.

Fortunately there are more honest alternatives now than ever. And those educated in modern politic are no longer enslaved by a corrupt news media.

More and more are starting to see that our system and it’s ability to allow the people to elect an outsider to the corrupt establishment has exposed their corruption and is going to be their downfall. The communist run Democrat party media is already going down in flames. CNN once a pillar of news and information now struggles to maintain an average of 1/100th of 1% of the population. They are utterly irrelevant. And Because they are mirror what each others says, the entire news media is following in their footsteps.

Historic times we live in as we make America great for Americans again.

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That's a great point that an outsider can become president. In the parliamentary system, only those who hold a seat in parliament can become Prime Minister.

This normally means having to work in government for years until it's your turn.


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