What Salvageable says in his post is true, but I think it important to add several points.
1. Most of the news media is owned by a small number of crony capitalists. That is the major reason news organizations like CNN and MSNBC are losing viewers. They are so partisan that Donald Trump was able to make it obvious.
2. Consuming the news properly requires wisdom, virtue, and understanding. That is, when we learn how to be good citizens, we should learn how to consume the news. Unfortunately, since we are taught in institutions run by politicians, fewer of us learn how to be good citizens either as well or as soon as we should.
3. Because the internet now has a dominant role in news consumption, the monopolization of the internet by a few large corporations makes it easier for a small number of crony capitalists to control what we see and hear in the news.

jilldomschot, a commenter on insanitybytes22 ‘s post, has a point. insanitybytes22 forgets that everything is relative, including nation states and political/religious movements.

The United States now is a large country with a diverse population. That was not true at the founding. The cultural values that predominanted in 1776 were in some respects much better and some respects much worse. Of course, which cultural values were worse and which were better depend on who we ask.

What Conservatives think important is that that 1776 generation produced the Declaration and the Constitution. The values incorporated in these documents are Biblical. Whatever faults the founding generation possessed, they also possessed many virtues. They did a better job of protecting the rights of the average citizen than any people before them.

Our problem is since the 1830’s, starting in Massachusetts, we have turned more and more to government to educate us, and government-run schools have taught us to trust government and government solutions even when they are unconstitutional. Since the 1960’s government-run schools have taught us to detest anyone who opposes big government. Unfortunately, insanitybytes22 seems to have ingested some of these ideas.

Nevertheless, insanitybytes22 remains Conservative enough to support someone like Donald Trump. So, it would be stretch to point to her and say: “with friends like her who needs enemies?” It is probably more revelant wonder how any Conservatives manage to survive in the state of Washington.

So, I suggest you read insanitybytes22 ‘s post and remember, none is good (read Romans 3). We can all strive to be better, and we can forgive the flaws in others the same way we would hope to be forgiven if we shared the same flaws.