The most beloved lead-ins on the evening news are invariably local murders. They provide high drama, and are the result of someone with a gun or knife getting mad at someone without one. The rage keeps them from considering the consequences of their action. A murder results, and the murderer’s life is destroyed.
The same thing happens in politics. The less-than-bright are often dumbed-down by anger, and that anger is fueled by those who understand how to create it and use it.
For instance, there are no hungry Americans, but there are many who are obese. Still, anger at “hunger in America” persists. Many are voted into office because they’re angry about a problem that simply doesn’t exist.
Few, if any, Americans are without health care. But, those “angry about the lack of universal health care” are quick to focus on “changes we have to make”.
Others are angry about pollution. This, in a country that’s so clean many people aren’t exposed to the necessary germs to build up resistance to disease, is absurd.
All the angers put together result in the lowering of IQ, the reduction of analytical skills, and huge political blunders. The worst consequence is when the greedy and self-serving use the fears they have incited to get themselves elected to office. They exult at the opportunity to make things even worse.
The Imaginary Problems that anger the perpetually enraged simpletons are fronts, behind which powerful, wealthy forces are able to destroy the group or nation they wish to loot. By the time they see it, the angry people who helped it happen have been marginalized, if not wiped out.
If you point out to the easily angered that their successes only make things worse, they will get angry at you.
