No, Obama was better than his predecessor without question.

Australia has ranked voting, which seems like a good idea but it didn't really solve the problem.

The problem is that both parties are full of sycophants, hanger-ons, leaches, and rent-seekers. The problem won't be solved as long as voters generally don't realize that. Currently, no more than 10% of the public realizes that.

WTF are you talking about? Who are these people that want to try something other than Democracy? They are all Russian or Chinese.

There are plenty of people tired of capitalism, but no one wants to move on from Democracy. Kim jong Un wants to move on from Democracy.

Smart.

You're an idiot without a point.

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

Citation: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18...

The writers of the constitution had in mind the (perceived negative) example of Julius Caesar, who single-handedly conquered the Roman Senate. Thus they implanted a system of checks and balances. The most relevant document is Federalist paper 51. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18... (haven't seen .asp in a while).

The most relevant quote is this one:

If the D team could have provided a candidate 5% better than Harris, then Trump would have lost. It wasn't a hard task. They fully deserved to lose.

Bush's lies were calculated evil.Trump's lies are habitual evil.

It's comforting.

The whole reason to have a democracy is the recognition that leaders are idiots. If the leaders were good, then a monarchy or oligarchy would be more efficient. But it's not.

The system was designed to withstand morons and self-serving grifters. The only thing it can't withstand is if a large majority of the country wants to break it apart.

Better than I would have hoped.

But I should have expected it. Both parties are just leaches and clinger-ons, bottom feeders, and sycophants. Every once in a while someone with a little ambition comes along and can sweep the place, that is Trump.

This is extremely hard to believe. If you didn't like Apple products under Jobs, you shouldn't like them now. You lie. A bigger battery and ports isn't that much of a difference.

It could be worse. The asylum could be in charge of the inmates. Buildings get angry.

Oh, the "everyone can build" event was just a hackathon, everyone showed demos of what they did but only some of it made it into production.

I don't know if you count "for her family" as production, but I would be surprised if her family used it, even if that's why she built it.

I think that's the same as the story.

Not really, the left won the culture war. Even Republicans are afraid to oppose gay marriage these days (except some low level state politicians). Love is love. Trump just legalized hallucinagenics for some use cases.

Well at least you're strong and free, fat-fingerer.