Bread and circuses
"... is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion, distraction, and/or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace"...
"This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirist and poet Juvenal (circa 100 C.E.)...identifies the only remaining cares of a new Roman populace which cares not for its historical birthright of political involvement."
"...reference to the Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power."
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