Is the maturity and sobriety of questions posed about the U.S. elections on Y/A indicative of the nature of ?

the U.S. political and electoral system. Questions typically run along the lines of "Why are all (insert name of party) morons ". To an outsider it seems like whichever name you choose to insert you will probably be right on the money. To an outsider it looks like there is little to separate the main parties other than the playground. Every aspect of the election is dumbed down to some vague chant surrounding the vanishingly small space separating the two contending baboon troops.