while I agree with all points made by the author, I personally lay the blame on the consumer, the constituent. It seems as if in every situation in which we find ourselves in trouble we point the finger at everyone but ourselves, no exception here. I say this because the writer makes comment about "information polarization" where republicans and Democrats receive their info from completely different news sources. My point is that BOTH news sources are "for profit" public corporations, and their main goal is profit, perhaps not as much full transparent info. Consumers have the choice to consume this info as much as they have the right to consume fast food "nutrition" and then blame the seller for their heart disease.