Smoke and Mirrors
The classical bait and switch is the foundation of the smoke and mirrors of deceit. The mass media, the folks that intentionally manipulate the facts to mold public opinion, use crafty tricks to get what they want. In a crowd of 100 people, there may be 10 people that just don’t follow the rules, and may be your typical sociopath/narcissist and they happen to want to control the other 90. They use all the tricks in the book so the other 90 would come along. Some of those 90 may be ill informed, don’t really care, but are pulled along. Those few that happened to pull the wool over the eyes are the people lying to you about the state of affairs.
The current state – matter of fact versus drugged up induced play environment, is that the country is in a mess and the folks steering the ship have been messing up. Instead of owning, confessing, and admitting their wrong, they play the game as if they “did nothing wrong”.
This lack of accountability or responsibility is why certain people simply need to be fired for incompetence and solutions to the environment need to be solved.