A cathartic article, but it might be worth examining this as a gradual process that has ramped up with social media. The newspaper, the radio, and the television all brought us further down the line to where we are now.

I think the big question is how do we move on and adapt from here. Do we add social media controls, like you might see in China? Perhaps do we try and pass constitutional amendments that fundamentally change our democracy in a way that jives better with the modern flow of information?

edit: of course, it's also possible the next generation will simply learn to live better with the barrage of information than we handled it, and our current highly volatile state of politics will reach some kind of status quo once again (for better or for worse)