#if you've ever taken a theory of knowledge IB class...

[phoenixyfriend]

Canadian not American dropping into to say you’ve brought a lot of stuff to my attention, also about the structures behind the problems that create them, or have at least facilitated my own research, and I understand you guys more now (example. Didn’t know what the primaries were. Let down a rabbit whole about your whole election process. It’s so messy i wanted to cry. You don’t have a non partisan equivalent to something like elections Canada. Insert Shrek meme: they don’t even have elections Canada). Like I knew you were going thru it but not really why or how things could even go down that road but (and I’m by NO means saying we are better, just different structurally, government and law and stuff, and not understanding how much was a huge factor) now I understand more so thanks for that and also sorry you’re going thru it. Hope that makes sense. Hang in there!

Glad to hear it! My hope is that even if people aren't American, then can:

Recognize similarities that allow them to parallel the information and analysis to their own political systems so they can engage there.

Understand the American system well enough to recognize what's going on when things about the US pop up with minimal context.

Learn to recognize the patterns of thought and systems that underlie both the way the world works and the way that people think, so they can understand media closer to home, recognizing biases and propaganda for what they are.