The dittos I caught did not seam disgusted one bit . <| sep |> it would need more than the first goodbye . not gonna happen <| sep |> It wasn ' t overnight . It was a decadeslong effort by rightwing decision makers to coax voters away from mainstream news and feed them a daily diet of increasingly distorted propaganda through tightly controlled media and social channels . Breaking honest communication across party lines was one of the goals all along . Mainstream news and media thrives on conflict and controversy , so there was no widely available venue of constructive communication between the sides to counter the pull of the rightwing alternate reality . The internet ' s cheap entry , low standards , and social fragmentation sped up the process .