Politics is a game that relies on distraction: the ability to divert the attention of voters from one issue to another. The very survival of politicians, perpetually hampered by their own ineptitude, relies on this strategy.
If you were to glance at our media (both “journalistic” legacy outlets and social platforms), you’d presume that the greatest threat facing the populace involves unidentified flying objects that are being shot down across the country.
Some believe them to be aliens — aliens who have somehow mastered intergalactic travel through space and time and yet have fallen victim to our comparatively rudimentary military equipment — or a continuation of China’s vast array of espionage balloons.
