Something that needs to be said

[pikabot]

I know nothing about the upcoming US Election. I don't really need to, what with living in Canada, but I just feel I need that to preface this. So I have no idea if this is a good thing in the long run, or if I'll be regretting thinking this way in a year's time.

But damn, I am surely enjoying watching things blow up in Hillary Clinton's face at the moment.

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[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

But damn, I am surely enjoying watching things blow up in Hillary Clinton's face at the moment.
What happened?

[pikabot]

Oh, Barack Obama beat her in the first caucus or whatever (Look, I can't pretend to understand your crazy american system, it is hella confusing). Which is bad for her becasue one, she was pretty much running her campaign to date by casting herself as an inevitability, and two, she was assuming she'd win that, and suddenly the advantages she would have enjoyed if she had are in Obama's hands.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

(Look, I can't pretend to understand your crazy american system, it is hella confusing)
Dude I only marginally understand it!

I read two articles. Politics.

[pikabot]

The Canadian system is so much simpler: the parties decide their leaders on their own time and then on election day you go for the party you think should win.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

WHY CAN'T WE DO THAT.

[pikabot]

Because the US is made out of crazy. Seriously, I've tried to understand your electoral system, but it eludes me.

[gabenut.livejournal.com]

That's how we do it in the UK as well.

[pimpstergust.livejournal.com]

As well as Sweden.

And you know... any other country that isn't completely insane.

I'm just saying. The US presidential elections seem more like a reality show than an actual democratic process at this point.