Meanwhile, the Japanese have much better toilets.

I heard that in a song about 25-30 years ago. I don't even remember the group, but I would like to give them credit.

I get a laugh every time I see "American Standard Plebe"

It's actually taken as a sign he's doing something right, because he's being """persecuted"""

Yep, they've identified their egos with him.

While I appreciate the sentiment, such a law would be far too rigid to work in practice. What happens if we get into another world war? Military spending goes up by necessity, but then so does education and the military budget has a much lower ceiling than it would otherwise.

We need to think

Funnily enough, Trump would very much agree with you.

And you’d both be wrong.

Hmm, probably. But we need to rethink the details of how US democracy works.

First past the post elections are as much or more a problem than the current state of gerrymandering to our overall health as a nation (IMO), and I bizarrely find myself agreeing in different measures with both supporters and detractors of the electoral college system.

I don't have much in the way of solutions, but smarter folks than me should be figuring out how to fix these issues fairly (and probably already have) - so we can modernize without destroying our system.

I wasn't only thinking about Trump or USA in my comment. Generally voters these day are only skin thick. They spend their vote like voting for a reality show

People need to know that there is more on the line. I don't think that democracy as such is broken but people exercising it need to be educated about it