[ SECRET POST #2569 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2569 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Little Mermaid]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[Team Fortress 2 and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert]


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05.
[Fresh Meat]


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06.
[Attack on Titan / Shingeki no kyojin]


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07.
[Skin Horse]


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08.
[Jon Richardson/Sarah Millican]


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09.
[Elementary]


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10.
[Saint Young Men]


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11.
[Game of Thrones]


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12.
[Arrested Development]















Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

FYI the reason that there's "no political equivalent to the Labour Party" is pretty much entirely an accident of the different political structures of the two countries. It's not really a sign of anything else. The thing is that you can't really have effective third parties in the US, because you have a presidential system instead of a prime ministerial one. In a parliamentary system like the UK uses, you can form coalitions in Parliament to support the Prime Minister. You can't do that in the US - once the President is elected, he's elected. And there's not much use to forming coalitions in the legislature - in practice, people pretty much tend to be driven to caucus with one side or the other.

What this means is that, instead of forming third parties and then building coalitions in Parliament, American political groups build coalitions on the party level and the election level. So, to put this in practical terms, where in the UK you have unions and labour groups forming a third party, in in the US, labor groups and unions were absorbed pretty quickly into the Democratic Party and it became more or less the party of the unions (along with immigrants, minorities, women, and before 1948 or so, Southerners). It's true that there's no Labour Party but it's not because the Labour Party constituency never existed - it's because politics just don't work the same way.

That said, it's true that there have been substantive differences in the historical course of the representation of the thing - I would say that's because America is just fundamentally a more populist country than the UK, in a lot of ways. And it's also true that the unions have declined in power over the last 30 years or so, but then you could also say that about the UK and the modern Labour Party, Tony Blair not exactly being the favorite child of the hardcore socialists.