Into the United States's pornish voyeurism — Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie injects some sense

© 2018 Peter Free

 

28 March 2018

 

 

The 2232 page US budget passed — with virtually no critique

 

Given that no one read it, and it certainly contains all manner of sins against societal sense, that should astound a rational species.

 

But evidently not the United States.

 

Why?

 

 

We consistently focus on irrelevant things

 

Part of this (of course) is the Democratic Party's concealed neoliberal — meaning "warmongering laissez-faire-ist" — imitation of the Republican Party of the Anti-Christ.

 

And the other may be the American public's preponderant penchant for maximizing malignant thoughtlessness.

 

As a result, and on the related "who gets the attention" subject — here, Stormy Daniels and her alleged Trump-took-me-to-bed recollection — Reason's editor at large cautioned that:

 

 

The Stormy Daniels interview lands just a few days after the president signed a ridiculously swollen omnibus spending bill that pours more gas on the nation's dumpster fire of debt while accomplishing virtually none of his party's legislative or policy goals.

 

It also comes after he's named invasion-crazy John Bolton as his new national security adviser.

 

Turn away from conversations about whether the pre-presidential Trump used a rubber during his adulterous assignation with a smart and serious adult-film auteur and start reading the budget bill that nobody in Washington had time to read.

 

It is, like the budget deal preceding it, the worst of all possible worlds:

 

It gives defense fanboys everything they want and more, while also blowing out any possible restraint on the domestic-spending side.

 

That's where the real damage that Trump and our elected representatives on both sides of the aisle is buried, in plain sight.

 

© 2018 Nick Gillespie, Don't Let President Trump Distract You with Stormy Daniels, Reason (26 March 2018) (excerpts)

 

 

Plain sight, however, is no use to us — when we insist on keeping ourselves blind

 

What's struck me about the last 30 or so years in the United States, is how easily most of us allow ourselves to be distracted by the equivalent of someone dropping his (or someone else's) drawers.

 

Manipulative power-seekers take advantage of our cultural bent for being easily distracted.

 

Wolves understand how disproportionately titillation — whether accomplished via fear, greed or sexual voyeurism — outweighs sheep's primitively inadequate point-grasping.

 

 

The moral? — A propagandized back door invites thievery and mayhem

 

Power and pillage go together. What matters is the Establishment's skill at producing distracting theater that conceals it.

 

Ignoring rapacious takings — in preference for pillagers' concealing (or justifying) propaganda — is an elementary survival mistake.

 

While the Powers that Be passed an unread and nonsensical budget, the American Propaganda Machine focused on what Stormy and the Prez were doing in bed years ago.