How's it deflecting? Since when do we offer any sympathy for the privileged and powerful? Public discourse as an arena of power. You think if I called up the BBC and informed them of my current mental state they'd publish it? Michelle is able to speak and be heard while the rest of us are deliberately silenced. I assert that the world would be a better place if all the powerful people put themselves into woodchippers and left the rest of us alone. Agree or disagree?

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power."

-- Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World