The world is more easily understood if you’ll accept a few theories…
Profit is the most important consideration. It’s more important than the future of humanity.
Despite what it’s sold as, no part of the corporate media is intended to be, or should be considered to be, a valid and useful source of information. Such media will always favor the perspective of its owner(s). Truthful items do occasionally appear, but they’ll usually be balanced, outnumbered, or contradicted by other items in the same outlet.
Most of what government officials at any level say in public has only fleeting (if any) relation to reality.
So many icons, touchstones, foundational items have been corrupted, co-opted, dismantled, and have ceased to represent what so many still think of them: things like government, conservative, justice, education, president, war, liberal, Democrat, Republican, news, reality, and truth.