Are you seriously implying that Afghanistan and Iraqi wars happened so that people could not vote against gay marriage?
No, I’m implying that Iraq and Afghanistan are now [they may not have been initially, but that’s another argument] little more than distractions to keep people [citizens] from asserting their rights; after all, “don’t you support the troops?”/”How can you advocate cutting expenses when we’re at war?”/”We’re fighting to spread freedom to these other countries... you obviously don’t want people to be free!”
The same is true of the dismal performance of the media: the reality of what our ‘leaders’ are doing is completely-contrary to the indoctrination of society that those who are in authority are good [and the proof is that they are in positions of authority].
Overall, this “Breakdown of The Rule of Law” can be traced to one thing: the rejection of the “Law of Non-Contradiction.’ This is the axiom in logic that states that a statement cannot be both false and true at the same time. By rejecting this, they reject all logical thought and are free to exercise their power in whatever way they see fit; after all “truth” doesn’t REALLY exist do definitions cannot be firm... meaning that the law, because they can change the definitions at will, is whatever they say it is.
IOW, these distractions are to keep people’s eyes off the very real tyrannies that are going on RIGHT NOW until they can use the excuse “this is how it’s always been” to justify that you “really belong to the freest nation on Earth.”