2016 Postmortem

Public education and media responsibility are 2 issues that have been trending in the wrong direction for quite some time. The former has been under attack by those who want to privatize everything, and the latter suffers from media saturation (leading to ratings-focused obsession with spectacle, regardless of its veracity). Republicans have been pounding the "liberal media" drum for so long that I think some stations are deathly afraid of being hit with that label.

Whenever Dems are on the air, they should point out that such and such percentage of the population believes {insert absurd belief}. Maybe it'll at least cause some to experience cognitive dissonance, force some media personalities to recognize the role they play in spreading (or at least not contradicting) nonsense and educate the young before falsehoods become too ingrained.