Comment on How the World Seems to See the 2016 US Election by Will-Erwin
It's quite sad. The 2 US States that I have lived in both supported Trump. Well if they supported Hillary it would be the same, just not Trump would be good, I'm scared for the future of the US hopefully the media just overdramatized the whole thing, I'm not religious but I'm praying for my and many others home.
I think the media can be counted upon to over-dramatize matters, especially elections. I'm an optimist. The constitution was written with checks and balances to limit the damage any one person can do, and it has survived far worse things than the election of Donald Trump.
I agree, but the pessimist in me says it's all gonna go to shit. I personally thought both of the candidates were terrible, and my dad said voting for a lesser evil is still voting for evil, I just hope it'll be good :/
I'm inclined to agree with your assessment of both candidates, though I think the fault is our own. That's the thing with democracy; the people are ultimately responsible for themselves and their government. I think we'd be better served by some introspection, reflection, and calm dialogue after the bombast of the last year, and I hope that everyone involved can do so, though I'm not holding my breath on that.
Yeah. Now that I think about it the US rarely talks about their problems, but that could just be my misunderstanding of US history. I wish that we could just talk about it, I don't like Obama but everything was calm during his run. I wish we could re-elect him.
There I disagree with you, not because of my opinion of Barack Obama, but because I think that executive political power should have an expiration date, and it's important for the chief executive to step away from his or her role as a matter of course. Washington's example of doing so voluntarily was one of his great legacies, and one that should be perpetuated. FDR's decision to break that tradition could well have led to the rise of perpetual executive leaders, something that the United States has been against from its inception. The subsequent constitutional amendment forcing presidents to follow Washington's example was appropriate.
The reality is that we can indeed just talk about political issues; we just tend to suck at such discussions because most people conflate any political discussion with political debate. Worse, most of the debates we see on TV are garbage time-filler with talking heads trying to talk over each other by loudly spouting pre-planned talking points built on logical fallacies.
We're overdue for another Age of Reason.
The reality is that we can indeed just talk about political issues; we just tend to suck at such discussions because most people conflate any political discussion with political debate. Worse, most of the debates we see on TV are garbage time-filler with talking heads trying to talk over each other by loudly spouting pre-planned talking points built on logical fallacies.
We're overdue for another Age of Reason.