Even a loon town in the NE area several years ago banned their outdoor
Christmas lights for the same reason.
Go figure. But H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956), journalist – magazine editor once said:
"[The news media] is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier". He went on to say:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
For example:
