American politics is a horrifyingly successful reality TV show. It provides the entertainment and conflict people crave, with the intellectual standards of professional wrestling.

Unfortunately real administration is boring - and should be boring. We want to avoid crises.

I hadn't thought about it that way before but I think you're right. American politics is very dramatic. High tensions, big consequences, subterfuge, conspiracy. It's got it all.

Yes but it's much harder to find out about Australian politics because we all spend our time as a minority on an American web and our media just aren't doing (can't do?) a great job.

Which Australian media do you follow? I'd say that Crikey covers politics as well as the best newspapers do overseas, and most countries dream of having a TV show like 4 Corners.

The media is certainly getting smaller—everywhere, not just in Australia—and important things aren't getting reported. The answer to that is pretty boring, though: pay your subscription fees already.

If I may add:

theguardian.com/au

michaelwest.com.au

theconversation.com

themonthly.com.au

All do decent analysis of policy and economics and holding government to account.

I’m not saying this post is by a Russian troll. I’m just saying it’s so incoherently angry, so full of irrelevant heat and devoid of useful information, that it might as well be.

Too true the thought crossed my mind but it provides an opportunity to make your own point in reply.

As they say ignorance is not an excuse, politicians are just a reflection of the people who voted for them.

But it sure beats authoritarianism, at least there is a chance of making it work!

And also because journalists could go to prison for reporting on it.

Sorry but I just loved this turn of phrase and how well it sits with the issue. Thanks.

Over here in the UK, brits are doing the same.