There's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three months

And Americans only have to pick one out of two opposing parties. How hard can it be?

You can get rid of your prime ministers pretty easily if they suck. We’re electing what is now essentially a king for at least the next 4 years.

my favorite UK shitpost was liz truss, very funny.

More education, please. I'm American.

How does this process function?

How does it change the ratchet right effect seen in the US?

It's not the time that's the issue. It's the eye-watering sums of money you cunts donate to let a politician run a campaign.

What the fuck does someone need $450m for?! Use that to provide support for the homeless, feed the poor, and protect children that need a stable home. You could do so much with that money.

It is kinda trolling how you can just call an election when you think your party will do best

Some countries end up with a great PM because everyone else was made inelligible. Looking at you, New Zealand.

And then there's Belgium, which apparently holds the world record for longest time without a government. At least introduce time limits for negotiations, guys…

Let the Americans have their fun. They love plot twists, a bit of pageantry and pizazz. While they certainly don’t NEED a year-long election cycle, most Americans actively seem to enjoy it.

It creates opportunities to vigorously debate the opposition, run some nice smear campaigns, do a bit of backstabbing, schmooze the big donors, kiss a few babies and add in the odd assassination attempt. You just can’t fit all that drama in a one month cycle like we Europeans like to do.

The US also has 5 times as many people as France.

Europe can have snap elections, but we don't try and have elections for every European country at once, with two leaders trying desperately to visit each one to win support.

If american democracy was good, other countries would be using it.

France is not the EU. This doesn't happen in other European countries because there are rules and proper times to make proper campaigns. I don't even think this is a good thing to joke about Americans because what was done in France was just plain stupid

Sounds unstable and scary.

edit: calm down, I'm sure 90% of the time it's a much better system than the US, but the way it is described in the title does not sound stable.

Ah yes classic European elitism on display once again

Some European countries have lower populations than a single US city.

Some European countries are small enough that you can drive the entire length in a single day.

Must be nice to have prime ministers who represent fewer people than the mayor of LA