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You wouldn't normally compare belgium with iraq but that's the country with the previous longest record without a government. for 449 days the iraqi parliament couldn't decide how to form a government and it took another 40 days for that government to assume power. iraq's democratic experiment was maligned. the belgiums had more practice. the country gained its independence and started its current form of government in 1830. it's a parliamentary democracy where the king is the constitutional monarch. so what should americans do if the government stalls? if divisions make it impossible to get o...

Parliament couldn't decide how to form a government and it took another 40 days for that government to assume power. iraq's democratic experiment was maligned. it was falling down while taking its baby steps of democracy. the belgian has a bit more practice. the country gained its independence and started its current form of government in 1830. it's a parliamentary democracy where the king is the constitutional monarch. so what should americans do if the government stalls? if divisions make it impossible to get on with the business of the country? well, what the people of belgium seem to do is...

"gun control advocates resigned to few changes in wake of giffords' shooting." i was not trying to find stories in response to this shooting, but this is all that is out there. the reason we are the longest surviving democracy in the world. the reason we are proud to the point of gingoism about the american democratic experiment is because of the simplicity of the core idea of our democracy, that we will form a representative government that takes its legitimacy from the people, so that we collectively, not because of some top-down edict, but we collectively representatives as a country can so...