Extreme noise

Richard Fernandez suggests, hopefully, that People are filtering political noise out. People keep going to work, inventing new things and going about their business despite the apocalyptic political talk. "Noise reduction is the process of removing noise from a signal." ... While the workaday world continues to regard the political system as important, it no longer treats it as supremely important.'

Perhaps the workaday world never did regard the political as supremely important. That's why they do and build things. Those who think politics is supreme generally wind up destroying things. Idols like human sacrifices.