Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "America's Stunted Political Spectrum" video.

  1. So the moral of the story is that the Soviet Union did a real number on the political and social mindset of the American people and Americans have been paying the price for it ever since with being the odd modern country with very different standards compared to almost every other modern country. I have to wonder how that test would go with Europeans on their views in many areas, I wouldn't mind taking that test myself as I suspect it will be all over the place lol. Anyway, the idea of labaling someone on the left or the right is designed in a way to dismiss all arguments of a given person and it works quite effective as well, many people don't understand there is a grey area when it comes to a lot of things and that most of us are not left or right but a mix of the two. We see the same thing in the UK but in this case, it's remainers or Brexiteers and the same excuses play out to dismiss the argument of the other simply because of their view point, Brexiteers do this a lot in the UK and the problem is, facts, evidence and common sense has little meaning when people think like that and that is why the US and UK are in such a mess right now. Another major flaw I see in the US and UK system is that it's mostly a two party system, Democrats and Republicans in the US, Conservative and Labour in the UK, it leaves little options on what the public can vote on, contrast that with many European countries that have many options on who they can vote on that have a reasonable chance of getting into power, in fact, Germany are well known for having grand coalitions lol, I two party system is a pretty weak democratic system because it limits choice, worse yet is that it forces them both to have policies that are not that different from each other in many cases, a case in point is in the UK, Labour only got into power in 1997 with Tony Blair by becoming New Labour, in other words, Labour had to become more like the Conservative before the people would even consider electing them and that is where the real problem is, after all, if we want real change, we have change our voting pattern, or we are just going to keep getting the same results.
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