We Reap What We Sow

More information than ever before is available at the push of a button or the swipe of a screen. It's easier than ever before to access contrasting views so you can carve out your own independently. So how is 2016 still the year of overwhelmingly stupid political self harm? It's not enough to lap up a news source. You have to be able to question its accuracy,reliability and bias. And many are either prevented from doing so or just never encouraged. These are in part the consequences of voters being fed a daily diet of fear and hatred from their one selected news source. I wonder if the results this year could have been prevented if the likes of the Sun, Fox News and similar gutter media had been called to account for wilful misinformation and inciting hatred a long time ago.