Watching the coverage of the Republican National Convention confirms what I already think about the Excited States of America. Their electoral process is ridiculous. Contrast the months and months and months-long primaries and yakking with the British Parliamentary system and it's a no-contest. The Brits elect a new PM within a few days, but it takes the Americans more than a year to do so. In Canada, we have the same system as the Brits. The leader leaves and a new PM comes in. So simple and allows the PM to continue to run the country.
In the US, any president in the last years of his term is a lame duck while the race for the next White House gets underway. We're seeing it now and it's not over yet!
Obviously, when breaking away from Britain in 1776, the Americans were determined to do things differently and boy, did they succeed. In a bad way. If you listen to CNN you know that for Americans, nothing else in the world matters except a ridiculous spectacle of Trump-mania. So unserious.
And speaking of unserious, hugging, candles and teddy bears will not stop mass shootings anywhere. In the US, as long as the National Rifle Association rules, nothing will change. I don't care how many people talk about how "this has to stop", it will not as long as politicians of every stripe keep taking money from the gun lobby. That's just an irrefutable fact.
What a mess.
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Our well-meaning forefathers entrenched it in the Constitution...
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I doubt they meant automatic weapons.
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