Thank you for sharing this grim assessment of a nation and world poisoned by greed, willful ignorance, hatred, and denial. It is the entirely predictable outcome of running a system based on money—a zero-sum game characterized by two production rules: more is always better, and what’s mine is not yours. On a finite planet, the logic of money can only lead to a giant monopoly game. As everyone who has played this game knows, the rules of the game can only result in one player owning everything and everyone else owning nothing—and deeply in debt to the winner for their houses and hotels.