How Elections Should Be Done

American politics are rather boring. We go to the polls, chose between two relatively similar parties, and no one gets killed. Where are the Marxists? Where are the Liberals? Where is the flair and drama? It would be much more interesting if Republicans and Democrats went mafiso and began to systematically knock each other off. I would also appreciate it if I was voting for something with an organic feel. All Candidates, especially Mit Romney, have a feel similar to that of a Matryoshka doll.

This is one thing the developing world has done right. Leave it to the Central American nation of Guatemala to show us how elections are done. So far, 50 candidates have been killed in the run-up to the vote. The passion to capture power is very respectable between the parties. How many of the current U.S. candidates would take this risk to be President? My guess is not many.

Story from the Washington Post.