>>83087201
well in Canada it's possible to trigger an election early, but I can't be fucked to remember the exact process for it

>>83087201
in a parliamentary system the majority party can do whatever it wants so long as it has a one-vote majority
in the US you need 60/100 votes in the Senate to pass a budget, so when the minority party has greater than 40 but less than 50 Senators they can just halt the government's spending authority if they want to. There's been talk of changing this to a bare majority, but that hasn't been done. In the Obama years the Democrats changed it to a bare majority to confirm federal judges because they were mad at Republicans blocking Obama's nominees. Then Trump got elected with a Republican Senate and they said "well, maybe we shouldn't have done that, we just assumed Hillary would win and there'd never be a GOP Congress again..."

>>83087201
Because our budgets continue until the next one is passed. American budgets expire even if a new one isn't passed, so government employees can't be paid until it is.

>>83087201
Because the US is the only country designed to shut-down if a budget cannot be agreed upon.
It's really that simple. The founding fathers had this in mind. You either get along or the system starts to buckle under the weight of your retardation. It's self-cleansing.

>>83087459
which would be fine in theory if we had people in the government who actually cared about anything besides getting re-elected so they could get richer

>>83087459
also the government likely wasn't intended to grow to this size with this many services being affected during a shutdown