Mainstream media gets teary-eyed and deceived...

@beckyromero I hope that is not true, but sadly I'm not prepared to deny your charge as too cynical although not ready to embrace it as factual.

@MarkPaul

I think sadly that the past eight years has made a lot of us more cynical.

@beckyromero And, that's the problem. The past doesn't make people cynical or positively focused. People control their own orientations in this regard. It's easy to love the system when you get your own way. It's more difficult to love the system when you don't. Democracy gives a lot, but it requires adoration even when you lose. People, on both sides, seem to want to win all the time, every time. Or, their attitude becomes, to hell with the system.

If the mainstream media does have the power to juice their ratings by guiding people to an election choice and that is what they are doing, the enemy isn't really Insurrectionist-Cry-Baby-trump, the base, or even the media. It's the people themselves.

@MarkPaul

Yes, voters (and non voters) are sadly sometimes the blame.