I have a question. Maybe it's a stupid one.

[Aussie105]

18. We do politics differently in Australia.

We don't vote on personality.
(Uniformly boring, our politicians - they are mostly 2 dimensional cardboard cutouts.)

We don't vote in ex-actors.

We don't allow mega donors to set the agenda.

We don't have a media that goes in for smearing a certain politician.
(Not to the extent that the US MSM is free to do, anyway.)

We don't vote in anarchist types who want to dismantle the whole system.
We sneer at them and ignore them instead.

We don't vote in shit-stirrers. (Strong BS meters here, inherited from our convict days.)

So how do you decide who to vote for?
Past and present policies, proven performance in intelligent governance, taking care of the fringe dwellers of society.
You know - the important bread and butter stuff of politics.
Something American version of politics has drifted away from.