" Don't know how the U.S. can function with their present system actually."

That's a good point you bring up. I don't know how our government has lasted as long as it has either. No form of government lasts forever, eventually sooner or later there is social unrest and dissatisfaction with the government and there is a big revolution and everything switches to something different. It's a constant continuing cycle of wars and revolutions throughout the history of mankind. Can't seem to get our stuff together and keep it together for very long. That seems to be happening in the U.S.A. right now and simultainiously all over the world. If the USA has a civil war it could be a bloodier mess than the first one.