Currently the entire tooth-gnashing political performances by both sides is on a level of professional wrestling. After 50 year of subversive mind control programming and consequent reduction in our cognitive capacity and discernment this is necessary to start us thinking again. 
As GPS did with navigation, legacy media takes care of difficult work of thinking for the viewer. Viewer are often given "the takeaway" a "consensus of the most brilliant experts" to sperg - and so we can't read maps or think any more. It's not a question of capacity. We can think, we've been heavily conditioned not to. 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bEI6Mx3-MOE