Quote Originally Posted by honedright View Post
Now it's all about bureaucracy.
It doesn't matter if you want to call it the bureaucracy, 'ingenious system of checks and balances', or something else. I think the main point is that the government system of this country is pretty robust.

In the age of internet and easy access to media platforms the volume and quality of political discourse seems to have regressed, but we're at the end of the second Obama term, and the country hasn't collapsed despite the constant predictions that it was just about to happen.

Regardless of whether Clinton or Trump will become a president, things will probably keep going more or less the same without any drastic changes. Two examples - the wars in Afganistan and Iraq, or Obamacare - yes they have some effects, but neither has altered dramatically the life of the median American.