"Is your entire media circus so strapped for money that they have lost all journalistic integrity ? Why don't you support the truthful media instead of those moronic media that keeps feeding you lies ? Don't your schools teach any kind of critical thinking, how to analyze ads and how to check sources ? (They do here...)"

Well, oddly, no a lot of the media does not just lay out facts when somebody like Trump or Hillary tells a lie of epic proportions. I would say their most common response is to sort of softly introduce a fact and then, like I said, just start asking people for their reaction...usually in some wacky attempt at "presenting all sides" as if the fact is less important than how each person might feel about the fact. For example CNN now always has right wing pundits and left wing pundits to give their separate opinions on everything. The facts seem to matter a lot less than the opinions on the facts.

Yes, it is maddening to watch.

Sadly even papers like the New York Times can be frustratingly ridiculous in their reporting at times. The problem is much of the country that is in a rage and Trump voters are very much in this category...don't trust any media outlets. So, educating and informing them is really difficult.

Our schools vary from state to state. Julia, my wife, for example teaches at an outstanding school in Massachusetts where the kids are incredibly bright and that anybody would be thrilled to have their child attend. In fact they so prepare the kids they start college when other children are doing their Senior year in High School. You go to other states though and the educational system can be in just a horrendous condition. So, in some states yes, children are getting an excellent education...in others, they can graduate without the ability to read or write. So, I would say in much of the country they are not teaching critical thinking skills.

I have read that article you linked to before, it is an excellent piece.