Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Highlight

a textbook example of how our national electoral politics and our media watchdogs are inadequate to address even the most glaring emergencies. When you have a system with an electorate divided up into two fiercely warring tribes, each determined to blame the country’s problems on the other, it will often be next to impossible to get anyone to even pay attention to a problem that is not the fault of one or the other group. Moreover it is incredibly easy to shift blame for the problem to one of those groups, or to both of them, if you know how to play things right—which happened over and over again in this case.