Q notwithstanding, George Carlin said the pwners wanted us smart enough to work the machines but dumb enough not to sit around talking about how we're getting reamed. Yet so large a mass of working class Americans have come to thoroughly believe that they are under constant assault and abuse by a powerful and unscrupulous global cabal installing full-spectrum control. No sportsball or pony show (or false flag for that matter) will change the focus.