Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Reply #3649 –
Absolutely. Important to remember that around 72m Americans still voted for Trump in his losing election.
How long would Trump have lasted as Prime Minister of Australia? Probably 6-9 months at best.
As a dear American friend who often visits and actually loves Australia once said to me many moons ago, "One of the things I especially love about your culture is that you have such a healthy disrespect for authority."
A huge % of the US population is still deeply effected by a very insular education system which is also very influenced by conservative religious values and unhealthy patriotism. And a meek and inward focussed mainstream media.
Although it's been a couple of decades since I worked in the US for a short while I was really astonished by their general ignorance of the rest of the world. I had a cheeky habit of asking many every day folks there what they believed was the % of the global population that was not white American. Just under 3% wasn't believed.