> British democracy and government is cool.

Oh sweet summer child.

The government there does not care about you and will promise anything to get another 5 years in power despite causing the issues they promised to solve in the first place.

You are essentially voting in the same party to be in government and progress there moves in the hundreds of years; hence the riddance of the scam that is unelected hereditary nobles which it took more than 700 years to remove them.

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pjc50 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In fairness, this is not unique to Britain. For America read "4" instead of "5".

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rvz 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Are there unelected hereditary nobles somewhere in the US that is entitled to having a seat in congress and can vote against laws being passed?

Nope. I don't think so, not even the length of the term is the same.

	▲	BigTTYGothGF 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In the US our unelected hereditary nobility just buys candidates.
	▲	xp84 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		unelected hereditary nobles Let's break down what Senators are: > Unelected In most states a single party will always win statewide elections, so our Senators are what I'd call "marginally elected" since they only have to face a quiet low-turnout primary election and then they sail to an easy re-election. They're nearly always guaranteed to win their primaries as long as The Party supports them, and they'll do so as long as you're loyal to The Party agenda. > Hereditary Many of them come from generational wealth, and a few suspiciously just happen to become wildly wealthy while in office, including through their stock trades, which has been decided to be 100% not illegal even when they know things the public does not know. > nobles Ours are called "elites," but most things are the same - they tend to all have gone to the top 2-4 colleges, and you can't 'break into' this set unless you were born into old money. Seems close enough from the perspective of those of us who aren't nobles or elites. So, you can think of the Senate as the House of Lords lite.
	▲	fc417fc802 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And yet all of your objections apply to us in equal measure. Almost as though hereditary nobles don't have much to do with them.

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tjpnz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What on earth are you talking about? They were elected in 2024. If anything its the issues caused over the previous 14 years which must be fixed.

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jongjong 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No idea why this was down-voted, it's true. It's replacing one hereditary system based on inheritance of titles with another hereditary system based on inheritance of capital.

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pseudalopex 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> No idea why this was down-voted

> Oh sweet summer child.

And Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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jongjong 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You need to have a very cynical worldview already to find my comment boring; as in; no information content. I really don't think most people are there yet.

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pseudalopex 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> You need to have a very cynical worldview already to find my comment boring; as in; no information content.

Boring does not mean no information content. But the part of your comment about comment voting was boring and noise.

	▲	koakuma-chan 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think that guideline means that if your own comment gets downvoted, don't reply complaining about it. A "why was this downvoted? it's true" from another user is fine, I think.