A quote from your article Joan - "For instance, no major news media devoted time during this electoral cycle to teaching the American public the advantages or disadvantages of any single political promise."  I'm surprised at your naivete Joan in stating that no major news media devoted time to teaching.... the major news media is corporate owned and specialists in fake news.  Your election times are a circus for the world to behold and many many people in your country woke up to the fact that your 'major news media' did not do its job precisely because it is fake news.  It doesnt matter what corrupt puppet your voters want, it is a farce giving you all the illusion you have control.  (Don't worry - very similar in our country).  When you begin to go behind your corrupt regime and research the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderburg group etc who OWN your major news media, then you will get an idea of just how the public are kept in the dark.