The Democratic and Republican parties
dominate the U.S. electoral system and it seems that these equally strong
parties block each other as well as the entire political process. The rules of power are very strange to Europeans who are
used to a variety of viable political choices with multiparty systems. American
voters have no party selection if they are in favor of environmentalism and
against abortion, for example. Smaller parties have no influence. In
fact there are only two choices, Democrat or Republican.
Americans allow themselves the luxury to leave many problems unsolved, and Congress refuses to seek solutions in form of compromises. Instead, a lot of energy is wasted on determining the authenticity of a president's birth certificate; in my opinion, this is just ridiculous.
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