Being Canadian, I have to side with the polls.
I've lived within the US for almost 5 years now, and the major issue I see is that this system, called "democratic" is not democratic to the full extent of what it ought to be.
Should I explain?
Ok. Democratic, to me, means that the people are involved in the decision process (but yeah, yeah, the leaders sometimes take decisions against popular opinion, for the sake of the people, blah, blah, blah...).
The problem is that not enough people here are involved in the democratic process, and some of those that are, have twisted views on things (i.e. voting for a party because it's a familiy tradition). The other objection I have, which Canada has always addressed, is how corporations are involved; it's really horrible here in the USA. I can't believe the huge sums of money that corporations pump into the electoral process!!! To me, it's reminescent of palm greasing of some middle-eastern countries government officials, to get something done.
I think that the USA ought to concentrate on fixing its own problems; education, wage disparity, economy, industries, jobs, etc... before it becomes a problem that gets out of hand. It seems that only people outside the USA can see this, for some obscure reason. :shrug:
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