I agree that things probably aren't going to get as bad as we fear. On the other hand, I find it hard *not* to get depressed when it seems like every single piece of political news that I hear is bad. Just listening to the coverage of the G8 conference, for example. What kind of country are we when our message to the world is that we don't agree that there should be aid to Africa and we'd sacrifice the environmental well-being of the entire world so we can keep on polluting unabated?
I'm not sure that a Parliamentary system is the answer. On the face of it it looks good, especially these days under the Bush administration, but on the other hand, it would be just as easy for the political opposition to use that system to get rid of a good president. I think we'd end up making the entire system less stable, with new leaders constantly being elected and then ousted, and I'm not sure if the end result would be any better. Might be, but I wouldn't take it as a given either way.
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Date: 2005-07-06 01:47 pm (UTC)I'm not sure that a Parliamentary system is the answer. On the face of it it looks good, especially these days under the Bush administration, but on the other hand, it would be just as easy for the political opposition to use that system to get rid of a good president. I think we'd end up making the entire system less stable, with new leaders constantly being elected and then ousted, and I'm not sure if the end result would be any better. Might be, but I wouldn't take it as a given either way.