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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Yeah, I was able to choose. We have primary elections that we use to narrow down the field in each party.
Look, I'm not knocking the Canadian system...I was simply responding with a 'glass houses' argument to the person who threw out the tired and flawed electoral college is a joke argument. Notice how THAT person hasn't responded.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
semantics
The point was you do not directly choose your leader. That may be fine for Canada. My father-in-law certainly finds no major issues with it and he has lived under both systems. My only argument here was that a person who doesn't directly elect his own leader shouldn't be commenting about the electoral college being an "utter joke".
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I make a joke about how fundamentally undemocratic the american system is (a two pronged point), you reply (to half of the argument) stating the Canadian system is no better, an opinion backed up by a faulty, easily refuted argument. I stop replying to you after you effectively inform me that you have no idea what you're talking about, but decide to give you another chance.
Someone else calls you on your ridiculously misinformed assertion about how the Canadian Parliamentary system works, and you argue back as if you've already made your case and made mute your critic (me), and to another, who provides an excellent summation of Canadian heads of state, you reply with "semantics"?
Our Parliamentary system isn't very democratic, but it is far more democratic
and functional than the American electoral system.