As a non-American, I truly pity your choice of candidates. I think it's safe to say democracy in the US is almost dead.

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The US has never been a democracy and was never meant to be a democracy. It was supposed to be a representative republic (the original intent of the founders).

I think it is funny to see people outside of this country being swept up in the spectacle of it all. Just know that the Col. (aka Sanders) is just as big a piece of the spectacle as any other candidate. Really the only sane choices are to write in "none of you bastards", "ficcus", or "Odin" (basically a vote of no confidence).

I do think it is cute that you think the American people actually have a choice or that they have any power in the vote. Do a little research into the Electoral College and you will begin to see how little our politics actually represents the will of the people. ;-)

We were created as a democratic republic where we choose representatives who are supposed to be learned and moralistic. What we have developed is an untouchable criminal class who benefit from our destruction.

edit,

We are a constitutional democratic republic.

https://www.reference.com/government-politics/constitutional-democratic-republic-94535bfb08c336da

Some false equvalency bias going on.

We found the trump voter, already looking for excuses.

What? You don't read too well, do you.

As a Commonwealther, America seems so utterly fucked.

Democracy has been dead for decades in the US. What keeps deteriorating is the amount of effort that they're willing to put into maintaining the illusion.

Yup, eventually the illusion will be completely gone

Fuck Sanders. I wish people could understand that if the government is powerful enough to give the people everything they need then it is powerful to create a fair system in which people can earn those things for themselves.

What Sanders started? Fuck off

Democracy is not dead. It's an idea about a political system. It just simply has not been implemented in the way it was intended in the US. It's not the political system that's the dead, it's the hope for it to ever take hold that's enduring a slow and torturous walk to its grave.

Answer this: why did/do you support Sanders?

You should pity yourself too, whatever nonsense occurs in the US will undoubtedly effect you as well.

We fear that democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner. That's just a political saying promoting sociopaths and psychopaths that claim they can rule us better than we can rule ourselves.

What we have now is run, not by wolves, but by psychopaths. They are eating us alive. Under Democracy we might make mistakes but we would try and we would improve over time . They don't believe in empathy conscience compassion or remorse. They believe in the law of the jungle, dog eat dog and survival of the fittest.

When that last dog finally survives in the jungle, I can guarantee that will it not be a civilized human being. Humanity will then have been tossed on the pile of nature's failures.

Forget their Psy op jingle. We would never rule ourselves as destructively as they do.

Hopefully the reaction will set things right. But I doubt It. We'll just accept the outcome and continue on. We didn't even have any proper riots at either convention. They've got everything locked down.

da fuck is wrong with you, son ?

You must be from the New Kebabistan or some other "enlightened" western country, because no one in their right mind from Eastern Europe would support a man who insulted our decades of suffering at the hands of his friends in the Politburo

Sorry, but what the hell is "New Kebabistan"?

Everything west of Hungary and Poland and north of Italy and Spain

It's totally dead. The only vestige of democracy in America is the vote and the vote is rigged.

So . very .embarrassing . the whole debacle. All of it.

Fuck that socialist sellout.

Almost? Lol, I'm not sure anything can revive democracy at this point.

"almost"

House of cards don't lie.

Why do you think we care what you think? We don't, really.

Don't waste your energy, these people have gone off the deep end sucking trumps dick dry. After the joke of ron paul, its as if libertarians have an obsession with old and shrivelled dicks.

Downvoting me won't change the fact that you're a shill.

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Rules 4 & 10. Removed. 1st warning.

I'm voting for Trump. Fuck off.

Did I mention I'm a U.S. Citizen that exercises his constitutional rights? Bet you wish you had some 2nd amendment goodness. I think it's safe to say that being able to defend yourself anywhere but the U.S. is almost dead.

Lmao. Get off your high horse. First of all Trump is the most popular candidate in history. Both candidates are huge names which every American knows. I'm sorry that America does not want to become a socialist shithole

I think it's safe to say democracy in the US is almost dead.

Good. We’re not a democracy.

I really hope you guys carry forward what Sanders started.

Fuck you and your support for a bolshevik jew.

Hey, cut him some slack. He probably lives in a racially homogeneous society where everyone contributes and does their part. He doesn't know any better.