And Americans have shifted greatly toward political philosophies on the right and on the left that regard public debt merely as a distraction.

His love life is not seen as a human, romantic affair and a sign of youthful energy, but as a possibly fatal distraction, the ultimate proof of his immaturity.

Leading leftist blogger Yossi Gurvitz, on the other hand, thinks that the neo liberal parties are raising the issue of equal sharing of the burden to distract the public that took to the streets in large numbers to demand social justice in 2011