An Idiot Nation. [ A Must Read for Voters in May ]

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mao jud ang pinas dili mo asenso..

[pinoyapache]

^^ which successful countries are modeled on America? As far as I know, the country with the greatest number of copycats is Britain, and their Westminster model of governance has proven a success in nearly every country that has adopted them. Although I must say that the Philippines is NOT actually based on the American model, because the American model is Federal and has more in common with the British system than our own.

It's more accurate to say that our democracy should not even be considered a democracy, it is a sick frankenstein monster of American/Spanish/French influences mutated by Pinoy tendencies and addition. Take for instance the separate voting of President and Vice President, which aside from being one of the most idiotic ideas in the world, is actually a Philippine novelty that detracts from the American model.

The problem I think with us Pinoys is that we haven't enough creativity to come up with our own systems, so we copy from other countries. Unfortunately we aren't very good at copying other systems either because we can't resist the temptation to modify and add/delete our own ideas, most of which are stupid and do not work, take for example the 6-year single-term presidency = stupid. The confusing mixture of Civil and Common Law in our justice system = stupid. The overly bloated constitution that is so much longer than the original American document that it purportedly copies and saddled with unnecessary provisions = stupid. Frankly, though it is offensive for someone to say that we are an idiot people, we have yet to prove otherwise. Incorrect insults are best corrected with action that prove the contrary but unfortunately that may be beyond our capacity.

In any case I cannot name a single country that has succeeded on an American-style democracy (whatever that means) simply because there is no such thing as an American-style democracy. Their system is borrowed almost lock, stock and barrel from the British system. I can however name a LOT of countries successfully based on the British model: Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong (previously), Japan, Indonesia, India, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and... America.

What must be good to you cannot be applied to others...in this case, decadent US of A and an equally-decadent ruled RP.