[Yorick]

Originally Posted by Lavindathar Firstly it's insulting to compare your states to our country. So Don't. We are countries, part of a bigger group of countries called Great Britain. We are not comparable to the State of Florida.

I certainly will compare. And it's not just the USA either. The States in Australia are also analogous to conjoined countries, and, as it is in the USA, each state is divided into counties as well.

Perhaps you don't understand what a federation is?

"State" is another word for "country". Who is the "head of state" in Great Britain? The Queen.

Furthermore, let's look at the populations shall we? The STATE of New York has roughly the same population as the Dutch State. (20 million or so)

The State of California has around 36 million, only 4 million less than the Spanish State's 40 million.

We could also look at the land area too. England and Florida are roughly similar sizes.

But the biggest thing you ignored is that English counties are analogous to New York counties. Or New Jersey counties.

If 20 million strong New York State, with it's own Governor, Senate, house of representatives and laws and judiciary is akin to Essex County (1,300,000 or so) and not Kings County, NY (with a 2,400,000 population) then what are the counties in Australia and USA?????

Do the counties have to get extradition treaties to arrest a person who's escaped to another county? Hey, that sounds like state/national issues to me. Someone runs from Denmark into Germany, or Arizona to New Mexico, and lo' the police must stop.

The counties in USA certainly don't. Unless the next county is in a completely different state!

They leaders are picked internally, by the partys themselves. That was my point. I beleived the American people voted on each partys leader.

As it is in the USA. Only registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic primaries. It's essentially a massive party vote. But done on say a Europe-wide scale.

But im not very knowledagble on policitcs, im a bit out of my depth.

Then ask questions instead of making insulting demeaning remarks that make your system out to be completely superior to the low-brow Americans, who just happened to usher in modern democracy in western society.

At least the Americans don't have an antiquated hereditary monarch who does pretty much NOTHING to rule, sucking up taxpayer dollars and reminding us of a heinous system of autocratic feudalism that repressed the lower classes at the whim of the monarch.

The American system isn't perfect but then what is? It's as good a go as I've seen. I'm a fan of the Westminster system (in Australia anyway) but that's not perfect either.