.... meanwhile, teachers and nurses are underpaid, schools rot, low paying MacJobs proliferate, public housing is disgusting, and the mentally ill are left to to wander the streets.
Bread and Circus's worked for the Romans to distract the masses and still works today.
"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement.
In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the generation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace,[1] as an offered "palliative."
.... Wikipedia
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