> Why is it that every high-brow discussion of US politics soon ends up quoting one of the founding fathers? As an outsider […] I, the GP, am Canadian, so have

> Why is it that every high-brow discussion of US politics soon ends up quoting one of the founding fathers? As an outsider […] I, the GP, am Canadian, so have my own system to worry about.[0] But if you're going to talk about the pros and cons of a country's system, it is useful to a certain extent to look at what the architects were thinking. And in this particular case they did have some insight into the weaknesses of what they thought up. Another that I heard in a recent podcast[1] was the fact that the existence / creation of political parties was not put in anywhere in the US system (even though they had existed in the UK already), and so you can get into tribalism/clans, which we are now seeing the effects of. [0] https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-crisis-of-canadian-democracy/ https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-crisis-of-canad... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZBLpzcYx4&t=50m50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZBLpzcYx4&t=50m50s