Summary of the Cliff Notes version.

If any of America's "leadership" over the past 30 years had an ounce of concern for the common good, why did they enable financialization and globalization to hollow out the nation's economy and social order? Why did they enable the frauds, skims, scams, cartels and monopolies that are the foundation of virtually every American billionaire's "we pay no taxes" empires of greed?

The tyranny of corruption thrives in an amoral cesspool of anything goes and winners take all.

In today's America, the tyranny of corruption has been so normalized that America's polarized populaces are blind to the profound corruption of their parties and institutions. As in the last days of the Western Roman Empire, the masses are made complicit with bread and circuses, mimicking their "leaders" debasement of the public good to [by?] feeding at the public trough.

Search though you may, you'll find few politicians who operate with a focus on the common good. Anything more said about this is just surplussage.

"We're Living The Founding Fathers' Nightmare: America Is Corrupt To The Core." By Charles Hugh Smith, ZeroHedge, 6/1/20 (emphasis removed).