The media and education are everything.
Education: civics is not taught any more, and it is disguised in feel good stories about victims. Real civics would teach every 10 year old, as they used to be taught, that the country’s government BELONGS TO THEM. Why we are different from a monarchy. Our government is not supposed to rule us. Nearly every child thinks the president rules us. This should not stand.
And more exposure to our founders and their actual documents in middle and high school, on a developing deeper level.
Media: President Trump needs to deny access to any media corp who doesn’t make an effort to be objective. No one is perfectly unbiased. But in the “press corps” who follow him around and get briefings daily, there needs to be a focus on honesty. Make a few rules about what constitutes an allowed media corporation:
1) they must not have been proven to collide with one political side, party, or candidate, and 2) they must not sit on a story that many other sources have vetted and run with.
Every three months they must reapply for access and the last period of time needs to be evaluated in order to pass.
The bad, biased media must be allowed, in a freedom of the press country, but it must be bested with news media sources that are easily accessed and focus on truth rather than propaganda. Propaganda would be allowed as well, but there would be a wider variety of news for a busy citizen to get a good idea of things.
What are some ideas you have to get some media back?