It's the same thing with bad cops. Bad cops make us angry at cops. The real bad guys are the leaders, the city council or mayor who will not require cops to follow policy that harms no one who is not clearly violent in the first place. The mayor and city leaders would be better off to fire the whole police department, or shut it down, rather than to allow bad cops to go on doing their evil. Thus, the mayor and city council are to blame, but you seldom hear about them. All you hear about are bad cops.
Yes, it´s endless distractions. It´s strange how so many people overlook their use by those in charge, daily life is full of all sorts of distractions after all.
I guess Hitler was right when he said that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." "and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths".
"Even though the facts which prove this to be [that it´s one big lie] so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying." I think he nails it there.
In other words they believe the big lies of their leaders because they between themselves are only used to small lies. And of course it´s inconceivable to them that they, being the smart cookies that they think they are, could vote into office serial lying psychopaths that have no problems with lies and scams, the bigger the better.
Yet, it was by the power of gentle, quiet preparation that Hitler succeeded. And it is by the gentleness of us stupidly humble, ignorant people that we seem to have success.
Do they keep us humble so that we can't succeed, or so they think? Or is it only that there is such a vastly great number of us, that they have only to reach out and take us whenever they want? Or is it that we are succeeding to drive them to failure without even realizing what we are doing?
Certainly it is not new heights of police brutality. Rather, it is new heights of information - via Internet - that shows us what has been going on all along.
Seems to me we need to act very wisely by keeping the information flowing.