As an American, I never fail to be impressed by the craziness of different European countries' policies. Greece and Italy (mainly under Berlusconi) not crazy, wow. Switzerland banning minarets, and France banning the wearing of religious iconography in for people in schools is pretty wild too.
It makes you wonder, "Maybe I don't have to look across the Atlantic to see crazy people in government or running in the government."
Please don't get me wrong, I definitly didn't mean to imply that Americans are crazy. What I meant it that politics in the US are such gigantic money- and advertisement loaded events that you get the impression that it's all just a huge meaingless show for the peoples entertiainment. Comical characters like Trum and dynasties like the Clintons or the Bushs kinda complete the image.
In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the generation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace,[1] as an offered "palliative." Its originator, Juvenal, used the phrase to decry the selfishness of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the commoner.
As a European, I never fail to be impressed by the crazyness of the US presidential election.
As an American, I never fail to be impressed by the craziness of different European countries' policies. Greece and Italy (mainly under Berlusconi) not crazy, wow. Switzerland banning minarets, and France banning the wearing of religious iconography in for people in schools is pretty wild too.
It makes you wonder, "Maybe I don't have to look across the Atlantic to see crazy people in government or running in the government."
Please don't get me wrong, I definitly didn't mean to imply that Americans are crazy. What I meant it that politics in the US are such gigantic money- and advertisement loaded events that you get the impression that it's all just a huge meaingless show for the peoples entertiainment. Comical characters like Trum and dynasties like the Clintons or the Bushs kinda complete the image.
Bread and circuses, my friend. Bread and circuses.
Huh? Did I miss something?
Have I dropped some popcorn?
No, you're good. "Bread and circuses" is a phrase meaning that people want and are satisfied by huge spectacles and free food.
Wikipedia page for Bread and Circuses
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I agree to a sense. I'm also saying you can see something of the same over in Europe and, to an extent, the world.