Sure, we Americans do and have done a lot of things right and well, absolutely or we wouldn't have gotten where we have, socially, sociologically and certainly economically, without question. (We've a lot--A LOT--of things wrong like maybe Korea but definitely Vietnam and that unlawful Iraq War and too many things about race, etc. but we'll save that for another time and day).
All that said, one thing we do wrong--and by wrong I mean deeply, wildly and very expensively wrong, all, is elections. Check out just a few notes on how the rest of the world does them:
The longest campaign in Canadian history was 10 weeks.
In the U.K., political parties can only spend $30 million in the year before an election.
In Germany, political parties release just one 90-second television ad.
In 2013, over two-thirds of income to Norway's political parties came from the government.
In Australia, voting is compulsory.
In Brazil, Election Day is on the weekend.
We just aren't very bright.
We need to undo our election system and campaigns and campaign finance and all those "campaign contributions", folks.
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