I am glad you see how US Democracy has much of a circus going on, Dave.

I have to disagree that the Scandinavian countries or Germany have much of a circus going on. They don’t. Their form of democracy contains relatively little spin.

The Anglo system is loaded with spin.

The distinction I most clearly see it that one system is based on the truth and the other system is based on power.

When red, green, blue, orange, yellow and purple are around, politicians cannot do much spinning.

When there is just red and blue, like in UK or US, then they can spin green, orange and yellow any which way they like.

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I am glad you talk about education. In a real democracy young people hear the truth from a large variety of directions.

In the crummy democracy, youngsters only hear what is piped out. They are never given the real truths, only the truths the spinners want them to accept as the truth.

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I wish you could go live in a real democracy for a year or so. Germany would be fine, but Holland or Sweden would be good, too. It will open your eyes like nothing else in the world.

I had the opposite experience. I came to the United States and it was: “Wait a minute, you made the world believe you were a democracy and all you have to show for is this divide-and-conquer system?”

I hope you find the time to invest yourself in understanding the real democracy, actually already proposed by Jefferson and only established when D’Hondt made more or less that same system available to the European public.

Keep on plugging, buddy. One day, we’ll say the same things. In the US, we need a better democracy than this fluffy thing.