TFLYTSNBN wrote:Interesting comments. Still does not explain the time and energy that foreigners expend on criticize the US and "study" our internal politics. No Americans outside of the CIA and a few Political Science students would bother to comment on other countries' internal affairs.
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I think that is mostly due to the fact that US internal politics have a huge impact on US foreign policies and actions which impacts other countries on a larger scale than the other way around.
This means that what happens in the US usually end up in the news all over the world, even if the news is about purely internal matters because of the reason above.
Also, I've found that most US citizens are unusually ignorant about the world outside their borders and even about their own country (of course, every country have ignorant people in this regard but the US more so). This means that the majority doesn't really care what happens in the rest of the world because from their POV it doesn't impact them in any way - so your comment about "Americans outside the CIA . . ." imminently describes the issue from an US point of view because you are still stuck at the naval gazing instead of looking at the bigger picture of the world.