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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep, you nailed it. Funny when foreigners get our politics better than actual Americans. America is fucked right now.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say that foreigners are better at American politics than Americans are. Just that most people on the planet are not interested in politics and only understand what the media is saying. With America being the most powerful country in the world for now, most people across the planet are familiar with American politics. And sometimes foreigners hear what Americans don’t hear.

On the flip side, the average non-American is just as ignorant as the average American. A lot of Irish people know more about America than they know about Ireland. A lot of Irish people don’t know much about the European Union either, except that Ireland is a part of it. Most Irish people only speak English, which is why Irish people are so ignorant on a lot of things that happen outside of Ireland, America and Britain, and even then, some Irish people can be ignorant on what is happening in Ireland. So being ignorant of your own history is not an exclusively American thing.