American, British, and Ukranian Politics and Ethics

Congressional sessions in America follow a relatively boring path of voting, speeches, occasional bouts of dispute, and usually a Republican saying something completely ridiculous. But it's nice, oh it's so very nice and pleasant and polite. Parliamentary sessions in the UK are a bit.... rowdy, with more direct words and much more of an emphasis on embarrassing or tarnishing the opposition's name. But they even have been topped.

A recent parliamentary session in the Ukraine over the extension of a Russian base in one of their cities was up and apparently stirred up a lot of emotions. As you see in the article, they are committing pretty violent acts, at least, those of a professional legislative branch of a country. While I think that's going a bit too far, I do think American politics can take a bit from this.

First off, this polite nonsense, at least from the Democrats, is just too detached from the real issues. And the one time you use a bit of actual rules to enforce and play the political game, they reel back like they've been shot in the gut. British politics has it right, too, but we need to fix OUR system. There's too many polite gestures and too "favors" being put into play here.

I believe in just saying what you need to say. I think, as a whole, Americans are getting soft. We've been at the top so long, we are used to comforts. We are used to other nations bending to our will, dominating the world in armed services, at least, not to mention the Hollywood and internet cultures. And we can no longer take proper criticism. If our senators, those in charge of legislating and making the rules, can't handle a bit of criticism, and I would go about ten times farther, then they are either too weak or are exploiting the "politeness" to stray the conversation away.