I know there are many people that think the electoral college is the best way to prevent rural areas being overridden , however , I cannot see how a system that allows a candidate with a lead this large , to lose can be seen as acceptable to anyone . <| sep |> Nah , western values are based in science . s <| sep |> Yes , that also makes so much more sense than dozens of buyers buying the same thing . Our system sucks and there ' s a great example next door . yet we still don ' t change it ! <| sep |> Okay , first of all , Second of all , communism has only been attempted less that 100 years ago , and most of the attempts were MarxistLeninist , which is probably the worst form of communism . There ' s also the fact that every single time communism is attempted , all other superpowers immediately try to crush it . Saying Communism has failed in the past for reasons completely unrelated to its praxis is basically giving up . We ' re supposed to learn from its mistakes and avoid them , not give up . I mean , if we were going to say historical successes or failures are a good enough reason to dismiss an entire ideology , then pretty much the whole of the rightwing spectrum would have to be dismissed , as historically , the right supported pretty much every thing we consider bad nowadays Slavery , inequality between races , instituonalized homophobia , no rights for the working class , strike breaking , etc . Hell , if modern conservatives had been living in the middle ages , they ' d be defending feudalism .