As a Canadian, it's always amusing to me when a European tells an American that the American political system is inferior despite American having roughly the same GDP as the entire European Union, with a fewer percentage of people below the poverty line, with 3/5ths the workforce, with half the EU's unemployment. Maybe we should be less judgmental.

Of course, the implicit "having a more left-er political spectrum is better" opinion is assumed, which is almost always the case for contra-American political claims, but in your defense, may not be the case here.