Poll: How do you feel about your government?

[kasperbbs]

Lithuanian here, fuck them all. Everything they do either fails miserably or they steal all the funding or both. Seems like the only reason why anyone becomes a politician is to become rich. I have only one good thing to say about some of them, they did pretty good in Lithuanian version of 'dancing with the stars', not sure how that benefits our country but here you go.

 

[Gypsybob]

I put 'Mostly Harmless' for the UK government. Westminster rains shit down upon the common people but luckily the Scottish Government put up a fairly decent umbrella for me. I feel bad for everyone who lives in England right now, at least in Scotland, Wales and NI an Act of the UK parliament doesn't take effect in the devolved places without consent of the devolved governments which is good for me because Scotland hates Conservative Party so I'm pretty safe from most of their bullshit.

 

[Spartan212]

United States here
We don't even have a real government anymore. They're all just puppets controlled by the banks, the lawyers, and the wealthy. It's a shame really

We should institute internet voting where every citizen could vote on every law put into place, like an actual democracy. Now we're stuck with a guy who lies during his campaign, gets voted in, and does nothing that he said he would do. When this happens, there's nothing we can do except wait it out for four years and try to elect someone else who will end up doing the same thing.

 

[Superlative]

Short Version: Things are messed up in the US now, but will hopefully go back to normal after the election in November.

the long version, complete with explanations for Non-Americans

Spoiler

(note: I have a liberal bias)

since the united states runs on a two party system (which i think is rather bad for us) a certain amount of balance and similarity between the typically left leaning Democrats and right leaning Republicans is needed to get anything done.

The election of President Obama outraged many conservatives (most of them middle aged, middle class white people). these outraged conservatives formed a group known as the Tea Party within the Republican Party. these far-right Tea Party Republicans, who often clash ideologically with main stream Republicans, began to enter into the US's two legislative bodies, the House of Representative and the Senate.

inside the House and Senate, these Tea Party Republicans vote against the majority of bills submitted by Democrats, thus riddling the legislative branch with gridlock regarding any bill more controversial than the 'Buy new toys for orphans with cancer' bill. this grindlock has become so bad it got the credit worthiness of the nation downgraded, not because we lack funds, but because the effectiveness of the legislature to handle the nation's finances were thrown into question.

the government may be able to return to it's formal, semi-operational state after the election is over, since a lot of what we are seeing on T.V. now mainly consists of political theatrics and posturing. but, to be honest, if Obama wins a second term it may infuriate the Tea Party enough to turn to even more obstructionist actions (although i think it has a equally good chance of taking the wind out of their sails).

 

[AnarchistFish]

The only positive thing I can say about The Conservatives is that Louise Mensch is kind of cute.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.

I'd better counterbalance this with the fact that she has voted for net censorship legislation, created a social network called MenschN and refused to admit that it was a pun on her surname, and just generally seems quite vapid. But she seems like a nice person.

Hot.

Right now, they're trying to pass a bill which makes it okay for ministers with dual nationality to take up office of power.

Waaaait, what's wrong with that exactly?

It could potentially be bad if someone who is very rarely in the UK is allowed to become an MP. Obviously, MPs who are the opposite of this but have citizenship elsewhere should probably be allowed, but there's potentially the issue that they won't represent the interests of the UK alone.

Don't vote them in then. Anyway, you could say the same about people who renounce birth citizenship in favour of a new one.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

UK. I hate our government, but not nearly as much as I hate everybody who voted Conservative because the Sun told them to despite the fact they know nothing about politics. I spoke to somebody who said they voted for Cameron because he is well spoken. It's just so idiotic, the Sun is owned by one of the richer men in the world, as if he is going to want people voting for parties that will take away his money.

 

[Agow95]

I hate the British Government, I like the Welsh Assembly.

 

[Zakarath]

Well, I put 'Mostly Harmless' in; mostly because my government (USA) is in a constant state of deadlock because Both sides are doing everything they can to make sure the other side gets nothing done. I support the dems, though. The conservatives are doing everything they can to drive our country back 120 years or so to the age when robber barons/big corporations controlled everything. We've already been dragged a good bit closer to it, too, with the conservative-controlled court putting in place the Citizens United ruling. At least they haven't (Yet) managed to undo the steps Obama has taken to get us a little closer to a decent health care system.

I just hope Romney isn't elected in the fall, or we'll see something similar to what's been going on in the UK, as he's promised to cut student loan funding while, I quote, promising students "as much education as they can afford"

Ugh.

 

[Phasmal]

Pretty pissed at the Tories atm because it seems they want to screw young people over in any way possible.
There's bugger all jobs and now they're chatting about taking away housing benefit for the under-25s.
I think they assume young people can always stay with mummy and daddy and be supported that way. It's pissing annoying for those of us that can not.

 

[Bigsmith]

I live in England and guess what, they can all burn in a fire.

 

[Aeonknight]

USA.

Almost entirely corrupt, lobbied into uselessness, not representing the people whose votes supposedly direct the electoral college so much as the corporate interests which finance their campaigns.

Any time someone gets in who sees the changes that need to be made, they get libeled into submission with a huge pool of lawyers ready to refute any complaint about said libel.

In essence, we are governed by multinational corporate interests. Most policy change is for the sake of shareholders, not citizens. The state of it makes me sick... but I don't hate the government for it. One could say I hate what our culture has been molded into to keep this system of corruption afloat (so I don't necessarily blame my parents' generation for this... they've mostly just been duped. Much like my own generation).

So, uh... no option on the poll fits how I feel about this.

Probably the most accurate assessment of the state of things I've seen so far for our country. You could have the cure to cancer put at the doorstep to the white house, but it would never see the light of day. At least not if the pharmacutical companies had any say in the matter. And considering they can buy legislation via the absolute joke that is lobbying, you bet your ass they do.

 

[FalloutJack]

I think Mostly Harmless is about the right field for me. (US.)

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Can't complain with the Australian Government really, just wish they would upgrade our internet already! It could be a lot worse.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Pakistani here(probably the only one. ._. The one who posts regularly anyway. )

And I hate hate hate the current government. It's so stupidly stupid it's horrifically funny.

Right now, they're trying to pass a bill which makes it okay for ministers with dual nationality to take up office of power.

And another bill which saves the president, prime minister and other related ministries from the power of the Court.

You'd think they'd be more stealthy about all this but they're not. Not at all. Lying to our faces, stealing right in front of us with a straight face.

You'd be surprised. I chat to someone from Bahrain quite a lot on a different forum.

Anyways, not seeing what's wrong with dual-nationality people particularly, but that second bill (preventing the government from the Court) sounds like evil dystopian government territory to me.

I live in England and guess what, they can all burn in a fire.

This.

 

[MrTub]

I do not like our current right wing government(Sweden).

 

[chadachada123]

American, it's a bit between complete hatred and absolute distrust (but more towards hatred, for our senseless killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people).

 

[Twilight_guy]

I'm in the US. I think our government would be better if people had the time and knowledge to make informed decisions, but they don't and I think the government suffers because of this. People say the government is corrupt and evil but I think if the people took the time to really be informed (which they don't have) then it could be run however they want. I'm fairly neutral, its good and its bad.

 

[Reyold]

I don't really care about politics as there is nothing I can really do and I know that the more I look into it, the more depressed I'll become

That's why I don't watch the news. I just get depressed over the idiots in our government.

I'm from the U.S. by the way.