Orchestration

Borderline
Feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You just keep on pushing my love
Over the borderline
--Madonna

The recent hysteria involving separation of children from adults (not necessarily parents) seeking to cross the southern border illegally demonstrates once again that few social events with political overtones are random. Rather, they are premeditated. Planned and often funded by groups with political agendas to elicit a sympathetic response from onlookers--particularly those who vote.

Stated differently, most sociopolitical events that grab headlines are not spontaneous, but orchestrated. A primary goal of orchestration is emotional capture.

A complicit media fans the flames. And kids commonly serve as political pawns.