Re:South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid...
by throw0101d on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:26PM
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> Why is it that every high-brow discussion of US politics soon ends up quoting one of the founding fathers? As an outsider […]
I, the GP, am Canadian, so have my own system to worry about.[0]
But if you're going to talk about the pros and cons of a country's system, it is useful to a certain extent to look at what the architects were thinking. And in this particular case they did have some insight into the weaknesses of what they thought up.
Another that I heard in a recent podcast[1] was the fact that the existence / creation of political parties was not put in anywhere in the US system (even though they had existed in the UK already), and so you can get into tribalism/clans, which we are now seeing the effects of.
I, the GP, am Canadian, so have my own system to worry about.[0]
But if you're going to talk about the pros and cons of a country's system, it is useful to a certain extent to look at what the architects were thinking. And in this particular case they did have some insight into the weaknesses of what they thought up.
Another that I heard in a recent podcast[1] was the fact that the existence / creation of political parties was not put in anywhere in the US system (even though they had existed in the UK already), and so you can get into tribalism/clans, which we are now seeing the effects of.
[0] https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-crisis-of-canad...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZBLpzcYx4&t=50m50s