How America Lost Its Mind

How did U.S. politics become so insane?  What exactly happened here?

I suspect it was a combination of things:

• The media discovered that it could transition news from a public service into an extremely lucrative industry, if it could only sensationalize the content to the point that people would have a 24-hour-a-day appetite for it.

• The education level of the common American sank to a point that many people lost the ability to think critically and examine what they were being told.

• Information and communications technology ushered in a tsunami of wealth to our country, but it went almost entirely to the top 1%, leaving the working class angry, and looking for a scapegoat.

• A criminal conman came along and capitalized on all this ignorance and frustration.

• The news media created entire cable channels dedicated to fanning the flames of white, middle-class anger, without any regard for telling the truth.

So here we are, with tens of millions of extremely hostile and heavily armed people believing that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, and that Donald Trump is their only source of truth.