Nobody can get the whole content of this lecture in one hearing. Fortunately, You Tube allows us to come back and build up the notes at each passage. This is worth coming back to many times. I don't mind if he is wrong on some issues. This one-man debate is a superb battle of minds.
@Dimera09
11 ай бұрын
Why does the video cut off David's American story?! 😭
@Beach_comber
7 жыл бұрын
The lecture ends with the preposterous and un-argued statement: "The American constitution works, ours doesn't". I'd give the "gridlock" suffered when the US president is from one party and Congress and the Senate are controlled by the other as one example of the opposite. We don't get gridlock in the UK because, fortunately, the lords aren't elected and so don't have the democratic mandate to hold up the will of the Commons permanently. Starkey bemoans the UK's lack of a president. I doubt we could get a prime-minister as bad as either Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton. If a prime-minister becomes too ridiculous, their own party can boot them out of office at any time they please. This happened to Margaret Thatcher. Much more recently, we had a useful change of PM when David Cameron lost the Brexit vote and was forced to step down. Theresa May took his place without any vote and of this I heartily approve. The last thing we needed was a general election right after the Brexit vote. I think the UK is much better off without a directly elected prime-minister or president.
@greyhoundsintheslips3713
6 жыл бұрын
The gridlock was intended by the framers of the u.s. constirution. Gridlock is meant to limit the ability of the executive to govern too much. It builds in a delay that stops the executive from over-reacting, over-reaching and threatening the rights of it's citizens.
@geruy
4 жыл бұрын
3 years of blocking the will of the people from coming true. Now that's a gridlock!
@tenacioustubbs8358
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Beachcomber would maintain this sentiment today, with the benefit of 3 years hindsight...
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