Americans are so depraved now that Americans say that mandatory vaccines that kill people are just fine because the lives of others don't matter.
Between the moment a system begins to crack and the moment people realize something has broken beyond repair exists a window of delusion. You notice the signs but interpret them as temporary anomalies.
The supermarket shelves that sit empty for a day, two, then refill with different products, packaging you don’t recognize. The electricity bill that jumps from two hundred to four hundred dollars in one July.
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully.
The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning — when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law, and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution.
That’s where America is today.