' Nother Crab Person here , can confirm that BPD was going crazy pumping out reports to our local FOX affiliate , many of them untrue . <| sep |> I don ' t understand the European system at all , though . First and foremost , your leader is a legislator , and always a senior member of the leading party or coalition of parties . It ' s built to always guarantee a majority of some kind . America ' s is built to be slow , and require broad approval of any changes , no to always have our leader be someone with a majority of power under them , and the right to change laws . Secondly , you guys average about four parties , but it seems like there ' s always three niche parties that only care about a couple issues , and then usually one conservativeregressive party . The names aren ' t descriptive granted , Democrats and Republicans aren ' t , either , but European names sound like they should be descriptive a lot of the time , and it ' s misleading , and despite all the doom and gloom from Europeans about the American election , I see people from Europe on what seems like an annual basis crying out that , I say , old chap , the Shuttlecock party won a majority ! We ' re all doomed ! They ' re going to limit how much of a thing we can do with the government ' s money ! This is the end of the world until next year when a new party gains a majority and changes direction again ! . At least the American system isn ' t being used as intended , if that ' s any excuse the States are supposed to handle most of this stuff . Europe is broken , and it ' s functioning as designed !