Well, it's not all good news :-(

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Personally I hold USA responsible for all the evil in the world and 50% of the good. American voters, more than half of them dont know what vote or stand for. When it comes to religious voters is even worse , they preach love and acceptance for every one and then they get peoples rights away.

Idiocy holds strong in US. If there is one hypocrite society that's it.
2 words: Dark ages!

I am guessing some of this is in jest but kinda difficult to tell??? I am certainly not an American apologist - far from it BUT

I do hope it was in jest and Spotty Socks is not genuinely suggesting, for example, the vile and oppressive regime in North Korea is either not evil or America's fault.

did a quick google on voter turnout and though USA is not very good the British turnout is not much better! Research was done on British who did not turn out to vote and the answers given seem to be about the same as in the USA.

I think Spotty Socks was referring to how Americans vote rather than whether they vote at all. In any case it seems to me better that people don't vote than vote without giving it the thought it deserves. Democracy should mean more than putting a tick (or cross) in a box every few years.

My fav channel over here is called C-SPAN which shows our government live & unfiltered without any commercials. When the gov is not in session the two channels cover various political events including Prime Ministers Questioning (I think that is what it is called)... Election nite coverage and the day after covered international news programming.

FYI Its Prime Minister's Question Time. Essentially its purely political theatre, but if you like politics it can be quite good.

I found a program from the BBC News which asked when you all would elect a black Prime Minister. It didnt seem very likely from the people interviewed. Seems that minorities in Parliament is pretty low - Vaz for more ethnic minorities in British parliament - TheIndianStar.com "Vaz is one of only 14 ethnic minority MPs in a parliament with 646 seats. According to the last census taken in 2001, some seven percent of Britain's 60-million population are ethnic minorities, which would translate to more than 45 parliamentary seats."

First a nitpick. We do not elect Prime Ministers, we elect MPs. Prime Ministers are appointed my HM The Queen, although usually the short list of those who could actually form a Government has only one name on it. Anyway, I would not read too much into the number of ethnic minority MPs. Women remain very under-represented in Parliament even though they are in a slight majority in the country as a whole (125 out of 645 seats). Yet despite that we have had a woman Prime Minister, before Thatcher was elected most people thought there was no way a woman would become Prime Minister, we proved ourselves wrong. I suspect no one will predict an ethnic minority PM until shortly before it happens.

*lame attempt at humor: Not sure what qualifies as the Dark Ages but at least the USA did away with YOUR Royal family a LONG time ago

You did not do away with the Royal Family. The Continental Congress adopted the declaration of independence in 1776 and with French help managed to successfully fight a war to secure your independence, the Royal Family however continued. We however did get rid of the Royal Family in 1649 but changed our minds back again in 1660.