How easily are we influenced?

I wonder who invents all of the stuff that is for sale in the early mornings on TV?? Even more so, I wonder who BUYS it??? I am so tired of hearing way more than I want to about money clips, shams, and male enhancement . . . I also wonder how some of those actors keep a straight face as they say their lines?

Is this what our society has become?? Why not . . . For years, our political system has been leaning this way. Why not??