It's probably more in line with what a democracy is supposed to be and it doesn't lend itself to corruption so easily. The thing is, it's our societies and our

It's probably more in line with what a democracy is supposed to be and it doesn't lend itself to corruption so easily. The thing is, it's our societies and our conceptions of stuff that are wrong and that's why it seems weird. They are right(also "Europe" has been devastated by war, ignorance, plagues, injustice for much longer than our 'newbie' countries, they had to learn something eventually. The population in general is much better equiped with education and civility), us new-worlders, we think we don't need that and that we'll be just fine :)