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marmar

(77,087 posts) Thu Sep 3, 2015, 10:51 AM Sep 2015

Deez Nuts admires the Canadian political system

(CBC News) After more than a month of dodging cameras while his name rose in the polls, 15-year-old independent U.S. presidential candidate Deez Nuts has finally given his first television interview.

Iowa-based NBC affiliate KTIV published an exclusive interview with Brady Olson, the teen behind the now-viral "joke" campaign, at his home in Wallingford.

Olson discussed everything from illegal immigration to how he chose his unusual name during the four-minute-long news clip (it was inspired by the Vine meme, by the way — not the 1992 Dr. Dre track.)

What caught our attention the most, however, were his comments about Canadian politics.

"Canada, they had a debate for their Prime Minister elections and they used a four-party debate," said Olson to reporter Sam Curtiss, noting that he'd originally filed his paperwork out of frustration with U.S. politics and to "hopefully pave the way for more like than just a two-party system." ....................(more)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/us-presidential-candidate-deez-nuts-praises-canadas-political-system-1.3213383

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Deez Nuts admires the Canadian political system (Original Post) marmar Sep 2015 OP

The two party duocracy with controlled two party "primaries", nothing more than glorified political party leader Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #1

not a person who should be given attention treestar Sep 2015 #2

the whole thing is idiocracy-sque in a way tk2kewl Sep 2015 #4

Kid could run at the top of both tickets. Octafish Sep 2015 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. The two party duocracy with controlled two party "primaries", nothing more than glorified political party leader

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 10:59 AM

Sep 2015

contests elevated artificially to the level of real elections, along with a highly controlled homogenous corporate mass media are all, combined, at the heart of so much political and social turmoil in Idiot America.

Canada is a ready made tested model for so many things Americans should change, and can change if only they would not build that 5000 mile wall that is being "debated" in America - another jaw dropping example of the idiocy and childishness and general trolling of American politics by politicians and media - among a plethora of examples. But Canadians may build may want build that wall themselves soon.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

2. not a person who should be given attention

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:01 AM

Sep 2015

just for doing this.

We don't have any formal party system. The parties are not part of the law. They just arose. Third parties can arise, but then have to get people in large numbers into them - people can't be forced to be third party just because someone thinks we need more parties.

We don't have a parliamentary system. It would be nice but it's not happening soon.