Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "CITIZEN by CNN: Julia Louis-Dreyfus says Democracy is 'a fragile thing'" video.

lipingsky duerer Hello Q . I just learned a little about you yesterday.
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Please take this as dark humour or stop reading. In some ways the internal turmoil in the US is quite entertaining, if I was to stop following things for a few weeks it's ok just like a soap opera, buildings and or cars burning, troops (paramilitary police or military) on the streets and it's real. It's somehow more interesting when it's real however hope things there improve or a bit worse so there is bipartisan agreement for change. Take care.
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@avaparker9603 many federations I believe have a Senate system where smaller population states have the same number of Senators. Australia has that also. We don't have a president so that doesn't apply to us. Personally I think the US presidential position itself is flawed because one person chooses the entire government that is all the secretaries (called ministers elsewhere) and can hire and fire them at will and they need not be elected officials. In some ways Trump has made it very clear how powerful the position is even giving secretary positions to family members , which normally only happens in dictatorships. The US Congress and Senate to use Westminster system terminology are backbenchers. Just like our backbenchers they don't have to do anything just turn up when they are sitting. I agree that the US president should be directly elected and as pointed out take some power off them and give jobs to other elected officials wouldn't be a bad idea in my opinion. Your president is akin to an absolute monarch because he or she chooses the entire cabinet and has absolute power over them. So an elected Monarchy instead of by birth. There are few absolute Monarchies left in the world.
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@avaparker9603 About 40% of governments according to Wikipedia have a bicameral system, which will have directly elected officials chosen by numbers of votes in an electorate and for the upper house or Senate normally representation from a secondary governments jurisdictional area or in our cases states. I think 2 houses of parliament is good. As I said previously don't agree with an elected monarchy and the cabinet being unelected. Why do you object to states having an equal say in the checks and balances? Anyway I think a bicameral government is the right way to go for any large country with states or provinces.
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@Southeren I reckon you might be from Mississippi or Alabama.
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