Totally understood, and advancing social progress and acceptance is very important, however, issues of economic inequality and the associated policies and gover

Totally understood, and advancing social progress and acceptance is very important, however, issues of economic inequality and the associated policies and government decisions that aid this increasing gap affect nearly 99% of the US population - they are inarguably more pressing, more important issues. Thus, I can agree with GP when they say these smaller issues, ones that affect very few Americans, but warrant hours of newscast time and require every American to formulate an opinion on, are distractions.