>>10460083Well first of all, American politics is stupid through and through.
I'm not talking about the people in it. Just, the entire system of voting is completely broken. It starts at the way votes count different between states, the fact that it's first past the post, making more than two parties impossible and if you live in one of the red or blue states, you might as well not even bother going to the election at all. Then eventually you get down to shit like gerrymandering and find out voting is even completely fucked on the most local level.
And that's before Russia starts mounting fake news campaigns and people start changing voting laws to exclude as many voters of the other party as possible.
Then you take this broken system with its two parties and add billionaire run news media all sucking up to one party or the other respectively. Ultimately it leads to the entire country being unable to talk about any actual issue anymore. It's all just about WHO says something, not WHAT they say.
So when Trump gets tough on China or Iran, people start to actually defend those countries just because they don't like Trump.
Meanwhile a Republican hears the word green and immediately goes into a frothing rage. You could make a project that costs pennies and creates 5 million jobs, but if it's related to diminishing dependence on coal or oil a Republican wouldn't want to hear it simply because those are democratic ideas.
It's all completely fucked.
