phart &
dgraff
I'll step out on a limb & say something about your politics, not that I really know not much about it, that's why I don't usually step in to American politics here, on the odd occasion I have made a say, I have been stepped on like a bug, as an outsider I wish to express a few things that I observe.
1. You guys seem to focus on the figure head (President we have a Prime Minster as still part of the Crown). These people are just figure heads of the policy their political party behind them, the running for president atm seems to have figure heads that are both donkeys, one stepped down recently & maybe moved into a retirement home. I don't know don't really care.
2. In AU we have 2 primary political parties, one favoring industry & companies, the other favoring the worker, times can be good favoring the companies/industry grows wealth, after a period of time the worker suffers lessening wealth, at that point election votes in the party favoring the worker, good for a period of time, wealth grows but then wealth diminishes, then the parliament favoring companies/industry get back in & round & around it goes.
Yin & Yang I guess.
3. As a outsider you guys may think that other countries see you as a joke, for myself I don't see it that way, you guys seem to put so much energy into people that figure head your 2 major political parties, these political parties would have plusses & minus with their policies that would off set each other, in some time one party would energize growth, once their growth started failing, get the other guys in, Yin & Yang.
What I do see as a joke though it the figure heads that American politics globally seem to focus on that the rest of the world see in our media, there is Trump & the old senile fart (honestly, watched this guys press release after Trump was shot, standing up for Trump but the guy dribbled a bunch of shit & even at a point seemed to loose the point) that has stepped down now & someone else has stepped in his place half way through the campaign.
Not all outsiders might see it the way I do, but surely I am not the only one, as leaders of the free world, honestly for myself personally, I expect more, much more 🤷♂️