I lived in the US for the better part of a decade, yet still can’t understand why so many Americans still don’t understand their own political system, despite being heavily engaged in it on a personal level.

They treat politics like sport and repeat the same tired talking points, like vote blue no matter who. This is literally the behavior that got their Republican party into such a mess - they voted red even if brain dead. Now their own party continually works against their better interests, but they keep voting for them because they can’t let the “social communist Democrats turn the US into a homosexual Muslim hellscape” or whatever.

They’re not voting for the change they want, but to prevent the other guys from making the changes they don’t want. This has been the cycle for decades and things keep getting worse.

Wake up, Americans. The rest of the world sees it. Why can’t you?

Unless you know the OP personally, I think you’re conjuring issues about them to complain about.