In Britain nobody can understand why those two are so well respected and regarded in the USA. It seems to be a country that clearly cannot get enough of their opinions and superior knowledge
Says who?
In case you haven't noticed from the rabid Watercooler and Politics threads, there are 2 camps of people in this country. Basically.
Liberals and conservatives. With 90% of all of them claiming to be neither, but still clearly one of the two, no matter what they say.
Generally speaking, there is a yet-smaller camp of Liberals who go about frothing at the mouth hoping to find the next victimized person. Oddly, they are no long satisfied with true minorities, but 'reach' to find people who aren't even in the group to begin with (Kamala Harris, Megan Markle, the most obvious examples). They then hang on their every word of their victimization story to generate more outrage for their fake campaigns. (Many of which are quite successful under the surveillance of Democrat governing party, who has been manipulating them for dominance purpose, just as they did when the Democrats were the party of slavery, they just wised up their tactics a bit now).
That 'smaller' camp of liberals is quite vocal, and owns most of the US media companies. Thus, it may look like America loves them, but America really is just addicted to watching stupid stuff on TV (I admit it, although I no longer do). (like one of the best running shows on TV, a show called Law and Order SVU, which was 100% dedicated to stories of women being raped - pretty weird entertainment, huh??)
Trust me, the vast 75% of normal everyday US citizens find M&M loathsome. Not the candy, the person(a)