On all sides, the American presidential election season of 2016 has been a mix of circus act, reality TV and nightmare. The media have completed their devolution from yesteryear's disseminators of fact to today's purveyors of entertainment, throwing their public responsibility to the wind in favor of good ratings and the pleasing of their shareholders. The public, in turn, tends to only pay attention to stories which support their own biases, even when those stories are in complete odds with established fact. Instead of becoming more educated and well-rounded by the preponderance of media outlets, we've stuck our heads in the sand, only coming up for air when we sense a like-minded perspective headed our way. Economic and racial strife are front-and-center in the current political climate, and it's hard to see them being replaced by anything else soon. Huge swaths of disenfranchised voters exist, not invited to the prosperity party due to their dependence on failing industries, not having the education or