Jeffrey Epstein, whose life story should be the subject of a million movies, TV shows and streaming specials, is largely ignored. I can imagine, in a different age, his case being one of those stories that never goes away. Yet it only appears to raise its head when something makes it happen, and then it is quickly swept under the carpet again. Which I find interesting.
The movie Sound of Freedom was ravaged. It was brutally attacked. Film critic and Catholic deacon Steven Greydanus linked to an authority who said the movie's lies would lead to endless death and suffering on the part of trafficked children. Others attacked the movie for failing to be a full scale dissertation on the subject. Triumph of the Will got less pushback.
Now we have Senator Katie Britt, who gave the response to the State of Union stump speech. Wow. I mean, the Press/Left always attacks the Republican who gives the SOTU response. Remember the great Dry Mouth Apocalypse of Marco Rubio? But this has been brutal. Apparently she bold faced lied about a case involving sex trafficking from decades ago. I don't know the details since everyone has their versions. I just notice that the topic of sex trafficking itself has been all but ignored in preference for attacking her. Once again. Even the victim in her example has jumped on board and attacked her as the main point of contention.
I just notice trends. And one trend I notice is that the national press spends scant little time discussing the modern global slave trade driven largely by the sex slave trade. Especially given our current lack of mercy or empathy for Western slave traders and slave owners of the past. Local press outlets will sometimes cover it, mostly in the sense of how local agencies are helping victims. But there's no real big national 'we must stop the horrors!' media frenzy. No ongoing headlines keeping it in the public eye for months on end, like George Floyd or the Unite the Right rally of 2017 or gun violence. In fact, it seldom comes up.
Unless someone brings it up, and then it's pull out all the stops and attack - the ones bringing it up. Again, I'm no conspiracy theorist. Nonetheless, if those - usually on the Left - would mount an outrage driven crusade against sex trafficking with the zeal that they go after those who bring up the problems with modern sex trafficking, I'd be far less inclined to give wild conspiracy theories even a second glance.
But as I've said before, there comes a time when it takes far more credulity to disbelieve a conspiracy theory than to believe in one. And given the reactions I've seen over the last few years where this topic does and doesn't come up, the craziest thing to believe appears to be the claim that nothing is going on behind the scenes where this modern scandal of human slavery is concerned.