Political Memes

The US being a shit-show is exactly why this job is so hard. You're constantly having to deal with political crap from Congress or the Supreme Court, state governors suing your administration whenever it does something they don't like, opposition pundits calling for your impeachment, and that's not even mentioning America's foreign affairs. There's a reason people call the president of the United States the "leader of the free world".

The US has a geopolitical position to defend and it's a never ending queue of foreign leaders clogging up your phone line and calendar book either threatening you or grovelling to you. And then there is the unique military position of being the commander-in-chief of the most powerful army in the history of mankind. So the president also has to attend military briefings, decide how to maintain and achieve the USA's foreign policy objectives using that army, whether to intervene in foreign wars, and so on. The US just has their fingers in so many goddamn pies that the job of president is unbelievably stressful. Yes, you're the most powerful man (or hopefully next year, woman) in the world, but with that immense power comes a humongous amount of responsibility. You could change the course of human history by merely scrawling some words on a piece of paper. You have the power to fuck up millions of people's days across the world with a stroke of a pen or by shouting some words down a phone.

You have to contrast this role with the leader of a country that is comparatively geopolitically irrelevant—their foreign policy is probably limited to dealing with the regional counterparts and/or the leaders of the USA, China, or Russia. The President of the United States has to deal with every country in the world because if there's one lesson we Americans will never learn, it's to mind our own goddamn business.

Just look at Obama—the man turned from a young energetic candidate to a ready-to-retire late middle-aged man after just eight years in office. Meanwhile, the prime minister of a country like Singapore governed two decades and is still in good condition to continue a career in politics.

I hadn't heard the vaccine thing? What did she say?

Australia had this, our parliament is full of complete assholes. The issue of candidates won't be fixed by preferential voting. We're the assholes.

On the plus side Stein is a miles better candidate then Trump and yet his polualty is ludicrious. You also can't make any changes if you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.

People at e bizzare, can't vite fkwr Stein bevoase of this and that but a tozic mile long laundry list of shit from other caduaudates is excused.

Hardest job in the workd is laughable, go pick strawberries in baking heat for a week, that's a hard.job.

Arizona Prop 140 is trying to implement this exact system. I hope it passes.

The ballot example is bad, but I definitely think this is an improvement on the current system.

As with every system; someone will eventually find flaws and then it'll need updated. Which is how democratic countries should work.

If someone tells you the system is good enough already, you can guarantee they benefit from some inequality.

There's a difference in doing it and doing it well

The fact that this thread replies to facts by going "b-but, Russia" like it's still fucking 2016 is just peak political literacy from USians. Not only do they vote for candidates everyone hates, they get absolutely piss mad if a candidate tries to run on issues their voters believe in.

I thought the issue with reddit was that it was full of idiots and bots, turns out it was just full of Americans lmao.

Aside from having a friendly meal with Putin, I would say that disappearing for four years, only to suddenly show your face on election years to tear impressionable young, left-leaning voters away from a party that could actually win... that's not a good thing.

If she, or her party, were for real, they wouldn't disappear for four fucking years.

I just wish she, and all of her shills, would just crawl back into the hole they came out of. Hoping this happens in a couple of weeks when she inevitably falls off the face of the planet for another four years.