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I've lived under rain, wind, snow, flood, fire, etc. etc. And blue skys, warm balmy weather. None of that was sucky. It was what it was.

Did the weather ever shoot at you for trying to buy food?

You have lived in three places for what -- each not many years -- but you know all the tides and times of what is good and bad in politic, eh?

Fourteen years and eight years. And more then three places. don't know where you got that idea. And perhaps having lived under them a little I might just possibly know a tad bit about how those systems do and do not work yes.

I'm favoring a multi-party system -- for in such systems the political ideals are better carried -- a vote is for an idea, and not the current vote for for a person or a "party".

Please point out one multi-party system for which this is true.

For political advisors we shall hire all eight year olds and fourteen year olds? Yes, they will be far better MEN than any sitting US Senator, but still ... You make too big a claim for being an expert, and where is your logic, besides that of a used car salesman's "Trust Me!"

In New York City they have Conservative and Liberal Parties (among others) that DO wield some sway in the candidate selection process -- in Israel they have a multi-patry system which produces a lively combination of personality and idea-based politics, where the ideas of each party are more adhered to reliably.

In a multi-party system you still have the eternal battle of insider-versus-outsider yet each party holds its ideals and throws in ad-hoc to the outsiders or the insiders, rather than becoming a big-tent ideals-mean-nothing party.