Yep, at least you guys have the “electoral college”, I guess. That seems to be one of the few things that makes this… Slightly less pronounced, arguably, in the US…
Spare a thought for NZ, which has more than 5 million people, yet no states, no upper house, and now, effectively no real opposition (because Ardern has an absolute majority in parliament)…
They also have special “Māori electorates”, where only Maori can vote for the representatives (Australia is looking at a similar model, with “The Voice”)…
It’s no wonder NZ is so utterly fucked.
Especially with a completely compliant media. As I’m sure our friend in this thread can confirm, if we, in our countries, thought it was bad? Spare a thought for our based Kiwi brethren, lol…
Yep, at least you guys have the “electoral college”, I guess. That seems to be one of the few things that makes this… Slightly less pronounced, arguably, in the US…
Spare a thought for NZ, which has more than 5 million people, yet no states, no upper house, and now, effectively no real opposition (because Ardern has an absolute majority in parliament)…
They also have special “Māori electorates”, where only Maori can vote for the representatives (Australia is looking at a similar model, with “The Voice”)…
It’s no wonder NZ is so utterly fucked.
Especially with a completely compliant media. As I’m sure our friend in this thread can confirm, if we, in our countries, thought it was bad? Spare a thought for our based Kiwi brethren, lol…
Guess NZ doesn't believe in equal protection under the law and I guess Austrailia is going to follow suit.
'Course we say we do over here in the States, but in practice we don't.