American / Irish Elections

[kawakid]

Is anyone else fed up, not interested/don't care about American elections? With months to go, it seems that in every state there is an election on whom is going to be the candidate for both parties.

Whereas there is a general election on Friday in the republic and there is feck all mention of it on the UK news.

What is going on? Why do people care so much about the American elections, sure I can understand it with a few days to go, but it's in November!

I'm also bored of the Euro referendum, I don't think I can cope with 4 months of bbc bias.
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[smegballs]

Stop being so boring, the US election primaries are excellent entertainment.

[kawakid]

Really you're in to it? Explain the fun
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[smegballs]

You get to watch debates, post dank memes, generally spout random one-liners......

It's not news, it's entertainment.

As much as the Republicans have got stupid policies they make it fun, the Democrat side of Bernie vs Hillary is pretty tame and there is only two choices.

There is several Republican candidates with a pretty broad swathe of individual politics... much more interesting.

To put it into perspective, USA isn't like over here where the party leadership elects a leader. The primary elections (the ones happening now) are the ones where people fight it out to secure the nomination from their party. So the current round isn't Dems vs Repubs, it Dems vs Dems and Repubs vs Repubs.

The bit later this year is the Dems vs Repubs actual election for the next president.

The UK analog of this is the labour leadership vote we just had, people fighting for top-dog position within the party. Just like the individual party leader sets a tone for that govt so will the choice of presidential candidates. Trump vs Cruz would both be Republican presidents, but would make very different presidents.

[Im-a-Ridah]

Politics in other countries is generally pretty boring as the effects on you are much less. I personally don't like any of the US candidates on either side. I only have a preference for Trump because he is mildly entertaining but still I wouldn't vote for him.

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[Ribenapigeon]

Yup the US is essentially the entertainment hub of the world. Think of 'murica as a kind of massive real life SKY box with all the channels for free. The more I see of Trump the more I hope he gets elected. He would throw such a curve ball to the established setup it would be like Freddy Kruger popping up on Friends. Let the entertainment begin!

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[Kris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztTtQdYFEvY


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[Rogerborg]

Trump, the Fortunate Son who's managed to break even over the years by bunging bribes "campaign contributions" to politicians up to and including the Clintons? He is the establishment.
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[Rogerborg]

It's a perfectly valid point to make. Despite his constant self-promotion, Trump is not a particularly successful businessman.

However, that still puts him streets ahead of virtually every other politician, who go straight from cloistered academia into echo chamber politics without even failing in the real world, let alone succeeding.
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