Smartulating Your Wordification: Optics

The political classes in North America absolutely love to smartulate their wordification.  Their use of the word "optics" is a prime example. They misuse the word to mean the images available to present some event perceived as politically relevant. Their intent is to impress the common man as being highly intelligent and technical, pretending to use jargon to emphasise the intellect required for their profession. To the educated ear they sound like the mediocre minds that they are. People who use "optics" in this sense should be exiled to a desert isle and erased from history.