[QUOTE=Slick Cam;192444]Since you have all the answers, shouldn’t you be running for office in Norway?[/QUOTE]
Norway is different from USA. It is Constitutional Monarchy so we don’t have an elected President. The King is Head of State.
We also have a multi-party Parliamentary system, which represent a wide spectrum, from Communism to Far-right Nationalism.(Not all with representation in the Parliament)
Head of Government is the Prime Minister, who are selected from the majority of the Parliament and appointed by the King.
In Norway the elections are for parties and the parties with a majority in Parliament propose a Prime Minister to the King, who formally approve of him or her. (Presently a “her”)
If that person, or the parties forming the coalition Government, loose the majority support they can be replaced, or re-appointed. A vote of no confidence, or defection from the coalition by one or more party, can trigger a change of Government, even without a new election. If no agreement is reached in Parliament, new election can be called outside the 4-year cycle.
Why don’t I run for office?? For one thing I’m getting too old for that sh*t. But more to the point; I have lived outside Norway for most of my life and don’t have enough knowledge of, or contacts within the political establishment to be electable, even on the local level.
Those who are elected are usually politically active from young and build up a following and reputation within a party before the get to the top of the party list at elections, which is far less of a “personality contest” than in the US, at all levels.