Looking in, from a non-US centric view, I just find it mind-boggling how sanguinary all the left/right trenches act and argue with each other. [Which is doubly

Looking in, from a non-US centric view, I just find it mind-boggling how sanguinary all the left/right trenches act and argue with each other. [Which is doubly confused since your left would still be considered solidly right wing anywhere else in the world (bar maybe in Australia/Canada).] If I think back to the early 90's CNN used to be regarded in the same light as the BBC or Reuters, with actual breaking news and world correspondents. Now it just looks like a pantomine of people deeply outraged about something inconsequential. I don't know if it's the 24h news business model that is broken or if you actually have some sort of psy-ops going on trying to create division, but there seems to be a very vocal chunk of the US that is caught in some sort of outrage addiction.