And finally the "government" of this country took away basically all regulations of food, environmental protections, pharmaceutical regulations, and regulations of complex financial markets and corporations. This resulted in a broken economy, a raped and murdered environment, poisonous food, and a catastrophic worsening of such life and death issues as vastly enlarged ozone holes and a melting of the ice caps due to global warming, and the deliberate destruction of ecosystems necessary for widespread human existence.
In short, the current government of this country instituted policies and changes that looked more and more like deliberate genocide of the middle and lower classes. For example, a city was intentionally murdered (called New Orleans) by systematically allowing the life and death levees to fail. People also remembered that white Europeans FORCED inoculations ("for their own good") on trusting and defenseless Africans which was followed by an epidemic of aides that decimated the Continent. Indeed, the horror of what was “done to” Africa by arrogant white Europeans would make Jesus weep.
Also, during the reign of this "government", educational programs were dumbed down to a level of illiteracy never known before in this country. Science too, suffered terribly, since it was virtually under funded out of existence by a congress and president, most of whom were probably in the lower 40th percentile of human education and intelligence. In short the dumbos were running the show.
Clearly, we're describing a country in very, very dire straits.
And now to the why
The nearly limitless power at work here is no longer "behind the scenes" (as they mostly were eight years ago).
This is not a country victimized by "bad luck", "Acts of God", or random events. This is a country with a government of elite ONE dem/pug party puppets (e.g., DLC = RNC). Ironically, elites" is really a flattering word, since it simply means national/international billionaires and multi-billionaires (many of whom are also religious fanatics).
Alas (as we all heartbreakingly know), the above isn't a gruesome fairy tale, it's the United States of America (more accurately, the United States of the Elites). Elites (aka the pig, pig rich, aka the "Have's") are the literal Gods and Goddesses of planet Earth. Not so long ago, they were called Kings and Queens, or more generally the "Aristocracy", and we were called variously peasants, peons, serfs, or slaves.
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