Two listeners presenting the same idea today:
Election 2016: Bread & Circuses by Tom Griffin
Pratt on Texas: Word of the Day
Bread and Circuses
A diet of entertainment or political policies on which the masses are fed to keep them happy and docile.
Example:
New/Talk 1290 listener William send us the phrase along with: “A phrase used by a Roman writer to deplore the declining heroism of Romans after the Roman Republic ceased to exist and the Roman Empire began: “Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.” The government kept the Roman populace happy by distributing free food and staging huge spectacles.
“Compare this to our modern day Democrats, who appease the masses with government entitlements and an endless sequence of ‘moral causes’ such as homosexual marriage, a $15 minimum wage, and men using women’s bathrooms so transsexuals need not feel the stress of using the men’s room. Meanwhile our freedoms rapidly disappear. Is it any different today?
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