From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:20:26 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>Your pol masters do not need to tell you how to vote, they just need to
>wait for "their turn" given you have a duopoly of power &
thus your vote
>is constrained to 1 of 2. Vote for whoever you like so long as it is
>Kerry or Bush.
>
>As for having a pol master, yup everyone has them, I just admit it
>rather than pretend to be living in an anarchy of free people.

There are no political master in this country of the kind you know in your
country. For example, in your country political parties choose which
candidates will run for offices. In this country we use primaries to allow
the public to vote on who will represent a party on the ballot. Ours is a
far more democratic system than yours.

Nor are we confined to only two political parties. On the local level there
are all kinds of political parties. Few of them do well even locally, let
alone on the state or federal level. Most of the public simply isn't
interested. Better yet, we have a winner take all system here and that
avoids the excruciating stupidities of systems using proportional
representation.

For all of its problems, the US system is infinitely better than yours if
only because it is demonstrably more democratic.

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