People have lost so much faith in the media over the last few decades, that "facts" really aren't "facts" anymore because everyone believes that half of what comes out of the media's mouths are lies for their own purposes. If they don't believe something to be an outright lie, they believe it to be selectively biased ("you told me this but not that"
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On the positive side, we have become a much more tolerant and relativistic society over the last few decades. Marriage quality is pretty much expected, and those who oppose it are rightly publicly shamed. We're as quick to remind people not to blanket blame all Muslims for acts of violence as we are to actually condemn those acts of violence. In many ways we are a much more tolerant, level-headed, and rational society.
On the dark side, this tolerance and relativism has also found its way into everyday political discourse; people now have the right to their own facts. "False equivalency" is a meaningless phrase in 2016 because who gets to decide that it's false?
Up is not up, blue is not blue, and right is not right. We're in a dangerous place.
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