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[–] thefloodcontrol ago  (edited ago)

I care as a Canadian because it effects me. If my countries politicians were not such spineless faggots I wouldn't have to follow as much.

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[–] Citizen_Bongo ago 

In the UK we pay far more attention to U.S politics than to any over nation, people here are far more likely to talk about it. Had a conversation with my friends about it the other day, on two separate occasions.

America is the global super power, it's relevant to us because they are so involved with world events. Also U.S politics seems eccentric to U.S, the electoral college encourages flash candidates who grab headlines. In our parties the leaders are decided in far more internal elections, so more mundane people with establishment ties tend to get the role, and when they don't they are still pretty mundane individuals.

Since we only see media reports and those are so wildly inaccurate, if not half truths, people are generally quite misinformed. They have no real incentive or inclination to look further, they see all the Trump is like Hitler stuff. Looking into it I think he's probably more like Theodore Roosevelt, which still has it's problems sure...

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[–] mcdowell_ag ago 

If we're going to criticize the US for Trump, we really should warn them that we have this guy Corbyn, the party leader who was decided in something which I guess is pretty close to the US primary process.