The headlines scream about allegations. They always do.

A woman accused a political figure. The details are messy and unavoidable.

The reaction was not shock. It was analysis.

Analysts did not focus on the allegation itself. They focused on the hypocrisy of the accuser or the accused.

This is the pattern. The real story is not the misconduct. It is the performance.

We are watching a show of political theater. Nothing substantive is ever addressed.

The decay of public discourse is complete. It is just noise now.

The process of minimizing real wrongdoing is routine. It is established decorum.

What the media is feeding us is a list of things to ignore. This includes the gravity of the alleged actions.

The consistency of the public outrage is irrelevant.

The actual source of the reporting is ignored.

Politics has devolved into a contest of narrative management. Power is maintained through manufactured outrage.

The public is left tired. The scandals are just background noise. The system requires it.

We are not being governed. We are being documented for consumption.

The rot is deep. It has no surface to scrape clean. It just oozes into the stream.