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Americans invented this. Their celeb culture requires months of 247 entertainment. Now its exported everywhere. Modi in India. Trudeau in Canada. They are all j

• sandworm101 10y ago
  That;s not the issue. That's been around for a far longer time than Obama. What is so painful about the US system is that rather than have proper elections, say a party-wide vote for the nomination, they have this series of tiny mini-elections where every week is another battle royal. The net result is a paralysed political system where the real problems are totally ignored. And I cannot be the only one here who's ears bleed every time I hear some pundit talk of the "black vote" or how evangelicals have this or that opinion. I see some of the CNN pundits, many of which are actually Canadian, flinch every time they are fed such lines. The American political obsession with racial and religious categories is just creepy.
  • kiya0 10y ago
    Its all entertainment. I.e. meaningless bullshit. Its equivalent to the guys who review the latest episode of game of thrones for 3 hrs and have 10 hrs or random analysis lined up for the rest of the week till the next episode appears. When I see the time and effort Americans put into their pop culture its like watching aliens from another planet. And they all have so much to say, with such eloquence and speed about essentially nothing just blows my mind.
  • maxerickson 10y ago
    The black vote is why Clinton is getting the nomination instead of Sanders. I would say it doesn't get talked about on TV.