parlamentary or congressional

[insurgency03]

just wondering since their so many people from all over, which form of representation works better(aside from the corruption and lies of politicians) i personally feel our congressional system in the us is very unfair 2 every1 because only two are represented.

[Guerrilla22]

I wouldn't say either one is a particulary good form of government, but overall, if you want to compare the US governmnet to any paarlimentry govt., I'd say the parlimentry govt. is better. In the US there exist only 2 political parties, and while they constantly claim the contrary, both have almost identical agendas, the problem is having only two parties creates a power struggle. In a parlimentry govt. you get many different types of ideologies and different political parties gathered nder one roof. Parlimentry govts also tend to be less partisan, which is the major problem with the US govt.

[apathy maybe]

Compare the System in Australia (parliamentary govt.) to that in the USA (a congress and a separate executive).

Both have only two major parties. In the US people in Congress have more freedom to vote against the party line. Both are not very representative (in fact I would go so far as to say that the President is not representative of even a small majority of people (there is a thread about this somewhere)). Both have two houses for the legislature one for the states (which is slightly more representative in Australia (12 senators rather then 2) and one for the people (who only get to elect one person from each area).


Really both systems suck. Random selection all the way baby.