My view is that this is a byproduct of a flaw in the way human attention works. we deal with events not the whole landscape of reality as such. well because tha

My view is that this is a byproduct of a flaw in the way human attention works. we deal with events not the whole landscape of reality as such. well because thats what it takes to survive. Politicians & media have caught on to this so all they have to do is manage attention when an undesirable event happens. once the event is lost its very hard for us to go back and review it as daily life take over & the cycle repeats. IMO the only realistic way around this is to have more eyeballs looking at it and have smaller pools of resources so there is less incentive to distort. both of these converge to the solution that we need smaller constituencies and a more EU like structure with a lot more representation per capita. Otherwise everything becomes a 51% attack & with this electoral college & Senate composition we'd be lucky if that.