After the "political" whirlwind that was the 2016 election, it seemed like we had to endure the half-hearted presidency of Donald Trump. Even after the election, he seems to be dominating mainstream media, and not just news outlets like CNN or The Washington Post, but political satire shows like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the Daily Show. Now I'm not going to say I have no bias, but I try to pull myself out of the echo chamber as much as possible, which is essential to a healthy political diet. It seems that for the last 6 months, the majority of the media's attention has been focused on the Russian collusion scandal. Of course, the news is interesting, and it has inspired amazing, and sometimes idiotic, debates on both sides of the political aisle.

But focusing on the scandal, and Trump is dangerous. And here is why.

Net neutrality has been one of the most talked about political issues in recent years, but it has faded to the background with the more dramatic news coming from the White House. I am a strong supporter of net neutrality, and I learned one day before the protest that under the Trump administration, the FCC plans to loosen regulation which makes net neutrality a dream. I realized that I wasn't getting actual details about political policies until the very last moment because every journalist is focusing on the various details of the scandal.

It is dangerous that we are letting key issues pass beneath us because there is more to politics than the president. In fact, most politics happen outside of him. It partly comes from our need to point at one person to assign blame at. It is easy to say: He is the reason why our country isn't working properly, he needs to leave.

But we need to acknowledge that the problem lies within the whole political system. and the media refuses to acknowledge it and stays fixated on Donald Trump alone. It is not healthy to assign blame to one. The media should be diverse, investigative, inspiring and new. They should not regurgitate the same facts over and over again. They should stop interviewing people who inevitably will say something offensive, and stubborn on national media.

We as a country need to stop finding someone or something to blame. This is not a pointing game, and that game shouldn't be the reason we're sleeping at night. It is about changing ourselves and considering more than the media for a multitude of issues.