From Skeptic Overlord ATS

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@"BIAD" 

The only thing I can figure is that the UK is where the Left has a reliable cadre of pot-stirrers to engage as needed.

There are a couple of Germans who do it as well.  I've been acquainted for decades with the German need to perceive themselves as peer-level rivals of the USA, and that need results in peevish behavior on the part of those who carry on the jousting.  After attempting over months to engage those people (face to face in the old days) in honest discussion, it just didn't happen.  They wanted me to be honest about the problems of the USA but they poo-poo'd any suggestion that Germany had serious social or political issues.  As one may imagine, that kind of one-sided exchange got stale in short order.

The bulk of the Germans I spoke with simply avoided topics like politics.  I was cool with that.  For most of my life, I have not been politically engaged and (apparently mistakenly) assumed that most other Americans had the same approach.

But the vast bulk of other countries don't seem to have the same need to lecture and (seemingly) moralize, at least on ATS.

No idea why it seems to be a thing particular to some countries.

Cheers