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Hint: Just because you are ignorant of the game doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Parliamentary democracies allow for more honesty in the government as everyone doesn't have to appease the median voter (see: median voter theory). Multiple parties and a Prime Minister who actually has to answer to the Legislative body of government? How crazy would that be? And how necessary is that at a time when our President couldn't name more than 10 members of Congress?
- "Universities are not education": The US has public education, too, so it's a bad example to begin with. What the US needs is more choice for the parents (similar to Finland), not more centralization at the federal level.
- "Democracy": The US isn't a democracy but a republic. The constitution was not designed for the federal government to hold as much power as it has now.
What you are proposing is abolishing the Constitution in favor of a social democracy with majority rule.
And a general note:
The countries that were mentioned all are European countries which are currently dissolving into the "EU" which isn't even a democracy but some form of (soft) communist dictatorship. With the new treaty the constitutions of all these country basically become void and all countries get "harmonized" under centralized bureaucratic rule.
Hardly an example of a successful government.
Results matter, and when your governmental and societal model produces a society and nation that is inferior in every meaningful aspect to another, sometimes with almost irreversible shortcomings in comparative quality, you suddenly lose the ability and high ground to criticize anything about the more successful society. When the US becomes anything more than societal roadkill in comparison to Europe, then you can call their model flawed and unsuccessful.
Uhh, the EU is not a ruling party, it is akin to the Fed. And, no, Parliamentary Democracies are not majority rule. In fact, they are much less so than Presidential Democracies, and neither are actual Democracies. Republics are founded on democratic ideals, though, and the representatives are democratically elected, which is where the term comes from. True democracies are inefficient and prone to abuse (see: presidential elections). The EU does not have a dictator, nor do they have an army...
Smarter population: Yes, they rank lowest in numbers of people who believe superstitious things like ESP, Creationism and ghosts (showing a more rational mindset), rank #1 in academic knowledge, geographic knowledge and know multiple languages. We're down the list near countries that barely have education systems. And yes, I mean "virtually no crime", because not only are the rates the lowest in the world, when you compare the US, the US looks like a warzone relative to other modern nations
There are US high schools with a dropout rate of 90%, our national average is around 30%. That's a big contrast to the single digit numbers more successful nations get.The high ranking on the Happiness index may say more about Religion and naivety than anything else. The best nations got that way by looking at what works, and what's ethical and practicing it. We just took a nosedive from Nixon-onward into insularity and societal failure. Ron Paul is an insular renegade, he's got a heart though.
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