This is true for most (all?) countries. If there's any country that avoided this fate, I'd like to know.
People don't know what's going on in their own country but obsess over minutae of american politics.
Legacy media is no escape as its journalists themselves are addicted to twitter and reflect that in their work. My local newspaper in germany used to have Trump on the frontpage more then any german politician.
It's a symptom of a problem within the US too. We're an enormous country with dozens of member states and territories, but we obsess about a tiny fraction of the politics. I've known how I'm voting for president for a very long time, but I don't even know what's on the ballot yet for things that probably influence my life more than the presidency.
Those couple things just suck up all the attention.
It's cause Countries are imaginary entities and humans just want drama and don't care to get it from their own imaginary entity or some other imaginary entity.
People don't know what's going on in their own country but obsess over minutae of american politics.
Legacy media is no escape as its journalists themselves are addicted to twitter and reflect that in their work. My local newspaper in germany used to have Trump on the frontpage more then any german politician.
We need local forums.