Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17835203
Fuck, the U.K. got several new PMs without even an election during the last few years!
People don’t vote for a prime minister. They vote for local representatives, the representatives are in parties that negotiate with each other to build a majority and form a government, and the Prime Minister is effectively the person that the representatives agree will lead the government. They don’t have presidential powers, they are just a leader of the negotiated government.
When Kamala wins, I’m curious if it will encourage a shorter election cycle, so people are still excited about their candidate when voting starts.
I don’t think anybody actually wants our elections to be perpetual. I imagine it’d be easy to fix, except for the fact that longer elections cost more and this means the richest have more sway. I bet they’d resist.
Time to stop handing control of society to rich people who lack experience of being a normal human being.
When Kamala wins
Love that optimism.
But honestly though, I wonder how many “liberals” (let alone people who were undecided, even though it’s hard to imagine they exist) won’t be too happy about a black woman as the candidate
When Kamala wins
Love that optimism.
OC might be non native speaker. There is e.g. in German a conjunction (wenn) which is used to indicate both, temporal (when) or conditial meaning (if).
I wasn’t a fan in 2020, but just seeing her now is kinda relaxing. 80+ President? She held a place of reassurance in that.
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We’ve had so much chaos and stress. Against that context, seeing her relaxes me, has for a bit now.
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High odds Whitmer will be the other side of that ticket after August.
Too short election terms make for a dysfunctional government. With the usual 4-5 years most countries use half of that term is already spent campaigning for the next, forcing the government to do anything unpopular (but often necessary) during the first years, and then tone it down and do popular things else they have no chance of getting re elected.
If you shortened that further the politicians would be forced into a perpetual state of pandering to the voter base instead of actually governing.
In parlimentary systems the election is less about the person, and more about the party itself. You don’t need 6 months to present a candidate.
On the other hand, those coalition talks can take months or longer with the old government continuing to run things for sometimes over a year after the elections. Looking at you, Belgium
Its also possible to not have government for years!!! YU’s political diversity must blow poor muricans’ minds!!
