Seeing bits of the DNC last week with celebrities like lil wayne making appearances, a packed stadium and whatnot, is there anything comparable in Canadian politics or even other parliamentary systems like the UK? American politics (and the news focused on it), is quintessentially American: big, loud and over the top.
We've got spending caps and short limits on election campaign length to avoid exactly the kind of insanity that is the American election cycle. I'm not sure it works 100%, but it does seem a little more sane.
Works where i am in the EU. Our national elections (I'm not a national, so I can't vote.. I just watch from the sidelines) had about 5% of the 'noise' of any US elections.
For which i am eternally grateful.
Fair play to the DNC, though. Their convention this year was very interesting.
But - where are we at? Eighty days to suffer until the US elections?
IMHO, it's way too much.
Ehhh not really, short election cycle. Federal politicians hold relatively low-key party and supporter events to drum up support, probably earlier this year than ever that I've seen, but it's nothing close to the scale of the DNC or w/e. We also have leader debates which I find fun to watch, but our politicians are more or less fancier regular citizens. Same with billionaires and other celebrities, we just couldn't be bothered, they go about their business and we mention we saw so and so.
I missed that convention. Did President Mountain Dew Camacho make an appearance with Lil Wayne by any chance? Or did the red circus convention get him (I understand they did get Hulk Hogan)?
