It's not about obedience. It's about providing an easily identifiable emotionally charged scapegoat when their manipulated narrative produces their latest fear inducing statistics. This in turn distracts people from scratching at the narrative too much.
It's not about obedience. It's about providing an easily identifiable emotionally charged scapegoat when their manipulated narrative produces their latest fear inducing statistics. This in turn distracts people from scratching at the narrative too much.
It also makes the citizenry obedient.
It also makes the disobedient pariahs.
It also hides their criminal friends.