Rosebud

If "Decision 2016" was a movie made ten years ago, who would have been the director?  It wouldn't be a comedy, that's for sure.  De Palma, in his prime comes to mind, also Scorcese, Cronenberg, Eastwood, or Oliver Stone.  Shouldn't forget Bigelow; she's pretty good.  And if he was still alive, Kubrick.   Yeah, Kubrick, along the lines of Dr. Strangelove...

Or has the movie already been made, and it was called Citizen Kane?

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I keep forgetting that Uncle Ken grew up in the bungalow belt, and had to refresh my memory.  Very fascinating, and found a lot of stuff I didn't know.  Bungalows were, and still are, highly desirable.  The "Chicago Bungalow" is distinct in that it's gables are parallel to the street it faces, unlike all the other types of bungalow.  At least ten Bungalow Historic Districts have been established in Chicago.

Some salient quotes from various sources:

"The word bungalow comes from bungla", says Charles Shanabruch, Executive Director of the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association. "It was a type of housing that was first built in India for British subjects."

and

Later it became used for the spacious homes or official lodgings of officials of the British Raj, and was so known in Britain and later America, where it initially had high status and exotic connotations...

and

"For many Chicagoans, a bungalow was the first house and the only house they ever owned. They were the foundation for strong families and strong communities. And for those of us who were raised in them, bungalows will always occupy a place in our hearts."-Mayor Richard M. Daley

Quite a pedigree; I like "exotic connotations."  I remember my parents looking at bungalows when they decided to move back in '56; Mom had her heart set on one.  Alas, too pricey at the time, and they had to settle on the 3-flat I grew up in.  It may have actually cost more than a bungalow but it generated income, whereas a bungalow would generate none.  It took less than twenty years to pay off the mortgage, and their actual out of pocket expense was only $75/month.  Not a bad deal at all.

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This train wreck of an election cycle defies description and is becoming surreal.  Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, and our system of checks and balances will ensure that, regardless of the election's outcome, things will be okay.   I shall endeavor to remain optimistic in these troubled times; the sun will come up tomorrow, blah, blah, blah.

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Finally, rather than me yammering further about the Internet, here's a little link about us becoming "Meta-Ignorant." :
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/the-internet-isnt-making-us-dumber-its-making-us-more-meta-ignorant.html?mid=fb-share-scienceofus

TL;DR   The final paragraph sums it up pretty well:

Today’s mediascape does not provide much guidance. It encourages us to create personal, solipsistic filters over information, making it unprecedentedly easy to gorge on news of favorite celebrities, TV shows, teams, political ideologies, and tech toys. This leaves less time and attention for everything else. The great risk isn’t that the internet is making us less informed or even misinformed. It’s that it may be making us meta-ignorant — less cognizant of what we don’t know.