I am always baffled.....

By the fact that even intelligent people are now no longer willing/able/prepared to think for themselves.

Whatever the media dishes out is just accepted without questionning. The media draws the conclusions, and when the conclusion is painful, it is embellished or played down!
Worse is when the media DOES not publish: Unpublished = Unexistant.Simple!
Blood sells... and even then, dried blood is soon forgotten.
New blood sells...and will keep on flowing... the wheels must keep on turning.

Money must be made/printed and spent.

Why the blood flows, exactly WHO plans/organises the flow of that blood is unimportant, as long as it flows.

The populace must be kept busy chasing something, be it money/happiness/social contact. It does not matter. As long as they do not think and start questionning.

Admittedly people have limited time, want to enjoy their lives, have fun. But to do that one needs a good, honest functioning society.

And who runs that society? Politicians and legal people.
Not particularly the most truthful ones in our midst, or are they?