The idiots on both sides of the parties are accomplices to the mainstream media. Fox News wouldn't be a ratings hit if it weren't for Republicans eating that shit up and spitting it back out. The sames goes for CNN. Then you look at all the non-real news agencies that people share, like Facebook pages. That's the new mainstream media. People will share a picture with text on it as if it was fact-checked news. That's both Democrats and Republicans who do that. It's all BS.
I think both sides wouldn't be fighting so much if it weren't for the mainstream media. I wish television and the internet would just go away one day and we'd all have to slowly come out of our shells and actually talk. At the end of the day, it's not Joe-Shmo Republican and Joe-Shmo Democrat that are the problem. It's the people in power.