Politics is a game that relies on distraction: the ability to divert the attention of voters from one issue to another. The very survival of politicians, perpetually hampered by their own ineptitude, relies on this strategy.
If you were to glance at our media , you’d presume that the greatest threat facing the populace involvesSome believe them to be aliens — aliens who have somehow mastered intergalactic travel through space and time and yet have fallen victim to our comparatively rudimentary military equipment — or a continuation ofAnd as the country spends all of its energy on either of these two theories, an environmental disaster is threatening millions of people, and no one seems to care, particularly those...
And while the EPA announced on Sunday that it had not detected contaminants at “levels of concern” in the region and that residents could return to their homes after a three-day mandatory evacuation, Rep. Jamaal Bowman that the EPA had confirmed chemicals had entered the Ohio River basin — the source of drinking water for more than 5 million people.
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