[vsareto]

>To me, it is baffling how all Americans have put up with this annoyance for decades!

All is explained with a cursory glance at our political system

[thfuran]

Doesn't that just raise more questions? That's a whole lot more to put up with.

[zrobotics]

But what if the other team won?

That explains most of the problems we have, there are really only 2 choices and people are increasingly partisan about them. Although for this specific issue, both parties are equally shitty, but as a US voter I can't signal anything about my displeasure with their telco regulations since it's effectively a binary choice and telco regs are wayyyy down on the platform.