Do you think there will ever be an American president who is mostly revered by a majority of the citizens in your lifetime?

No. We live in an attention economy, where a companies profit is directly tied to how much attention the consumer gives. That's why there's ads everywhere you look.

As a result of this societal feature, the companies that we rely on for information, from our news, to our entertainment, to our social media, they're prioritizing negative information or self-serving biases in order to keep people locked-in to their channel.

Getting people more and more reliant on these outlets to validate their identities often comes at the price of invalidating other people's identities. In the realm of politics, you now have conservatives actively hating liberals and vise versa. More than ever before.

As a result, people are becoming more and more entrenched into their views while being fed nothing but negativity about opposing viewpoints. This fracturing of society is making it seem almost impossible for people to come together in order to agree on anything