This article shows what is the greatest threat to American Democracy and global stability. Not Putin, or ISIS. Stupid, ignorant and apathetic people.
After decades of education system neglect and propaganda from Fox News, with the new phenomena of fake news websites and broken social media algorithms, and the proactive hateful derision of the next president of the United States, the nervous system of democracy (the fourth estate) - common facts and discourse facilitated by the media - is over.
I actually believe (and have been saying for almost a decade) that it all started with the media's failure to state the truth about the Iraq war. I know I, and my generation, lost faith in the institution during that period.
Next Trump has chipped away at confidence in the intelligence community.
Next, congress?
What's left is his Twitter account and his whims. Otherwise known as Dictatorship.
I actually had someone - a Canadian - ask me the other day "isn't Obama a muslim though?"
FML