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Here we go again: Two candidates in opposite corners, blue and red, black and white. When the session is over, they will be green and yellow. A boxing match? No, it's the US Presidential Election. I know it's a cliché, but I have always been fascinated with this show - going on for several years each time, it seems. And seems to be more important than the representation in the two chambers. Maybe I'm just an ignorant European, but I have always wondered if the Americans themselves don't sometimes feel a need to mix it up some more? Here's my paradox: In the land of freedom and choice - there are only, in effect, two candidates to choose between. Liberal or Conservative. Watched from Europe - and I am happy to say also as part of 'we the people' - I compare: I have many choices. About ten conservative, liberal, very liberal, social-liberal, socialist, very socialist, centered, religious, and other funky parties and single persons. And this is not to say that things are better in Europe (hardly), but the democracy is built on a wide variety of parties. They simply have to get along to rule the country. After each election there are no ultimate winners. But the people.
Here we go again: Two candidates in opposite corners, blue and red, black and white. When the session is over, they will be green and yellow. A boxing match? No, it's the US Presidential Election. I know it's a cliché, but I have always been fascinated with this show - going on for several years each time, it seems. And seems to be more important than the representation in the two chambers. Maybe I'm just an ignorant European, but I have always wondered if the Americans themselves don't sometimes feel a need to mix it up some more? Here's my paradox: In the land of freedom and choice - there are only, in effect, two candidates to choose between. Liberal or Conservative. Watched from Europe - and I am happy to say also as part of 'we the people' - I compare: I have many choices. About ten conservative, liberal, very liberal, social-liberal, socialist, very socialist, centered, religious, and other funky parties and single persons. And this is not to say that things are better in Europe (hardly), but the democracy is built on a wide variety of parties. They simply have to get along to rule the country. After each election there are no ultimate winners. But the people.