The nation had some periods of respite from socialist tendencies in recent years. Take the Gulf War, for instance. We finally got to see nifty weapons employed against people we didn't really care about. Sure, it would have been much better for the nation if they were used on the inner cities or Washington. But they were a good distraction from domestic problems.
Entertainment is entertainment.
Prime time CNN was not Turandot at the Met, but it was close enough for my taste. More recently, the nation learned the effects of mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel. This was not as cool as the Gulf War, for a U-Haul does not a smart bomb make. Despite this new religious fervor, Weber's Protestant Spirit, the work that affirmed the justice of capitalism in Western society, has been overlooked by modern evangelists and the Christian Right. The situation is dire.