How come 99% of political discussions are about the US?

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Because I live in the U.S., and U.S. politics affects me directly. If I lived in Liechtenstein, I'm quite sure that my interests and outlook would be quite different.

Everybody on Wrong Planet doesn't live in the US you know.

But I think Americans really do believe that they are the center of the whole universe and that everything revolves around them. It's very annoying to me.

Also my point is that American issues pretty much dominate every political topic in message boards like these.

While it's certainly true that a lot of Americans are ethnocentric and fervently believe in American Exceptionalism, it's also true that as an imperial power which spends more on it's military than the next seven largest militaries combined; with a military presence in at least 150 countries and dropping a bomb on somebody somewhere every 12 minutes and has been at war, almost exclusively overseas with other countries, for 222 out of 239 years it's been in existence, the United States exerts much a greater influence in the world than it's 4.28% of the global population might otherwise project.

Trumpmainia.

I'll be glad when our empire collapses.

Are they watching slit of CNN or Fox.

Perhaps they could try other channels.

American politics is very interesting to the rest of the world.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. I imagine some countries out there that have little to do with us laugh at how excessively conceited our people are.

What's the demographic stats of WP?

I meant....for both positive and negative reasons.

I use the word "interesting" to mean "fascinating" in both the positive and negative senses.

I would like to hear more about the politics of other countries. I frequently hear about Trinidadian politics because my wife is Trinidadian.

Because Brexit is too confusing to talk about?

At the time it happened, there was plenty of talk about Brexit---even from Americans.

If 99% of the discussions are about that, it's because that's what members have chosen to post about. If you want other discussions, you are free to post them, but please limit new threads per subforum to no more than 2 per day. The problem isn't if one member for once posts 3 threads in one subforum a day, the problem is when one member is so preoccupied with one theme that he/she posts numerous new threads daily, which we have seen here from time to time, therefore the decision to limit it to 2.

You might not be too wrong about that, but unfortunately American politics can have consequences for the rest of the world as well, including by its climate politics. Some of us care about the destruction of the Endangered Species Act as well.

Well, I find it surprising that no thread talks about France’s situation for instance.

By estimation, I think US and UK are the two largest demographics on WP.