Our one-party democracy is worse. The fact is, on both the energy/climate
legislation and health care legislation, only the Democrats are really playing. With a few notable exceptions, the Republican Party is standing, arms folded and saying “no.” Many of them just want President Obama to fail. Such a waste. Mr. Obama is not a socialist; he’s a centrist. But if he’s forced to depend entirely on his own party to pass legislation, he will be whipsawed by its different factions.
Compared to China's autocracy we are a bunch of nincompoops and to that statement I would agree. I post this to point out the fractious nature of the American system of goverment compared to what it was when it was created. We have gone from an all-male, white-only, government with a slave-based agricultural economy to a all-inclusive almagasm of varying interests trying to make decisions based on the half-truths and misinformation the major news dispersing agencies vomit up each day. How can we possibly get anything done like this. And on top of all that the people in the only party playing the game can't do their jobs in the first plac.e
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