And it is intentional.
We are living in the modern equivalent of the waning years of the Roman Empire.
Except this time the enemy and destroyers are not hordes of foreign barbarians attacking from the outside.
The destroyers of our civilization are sitting in high office in Washington, DC., placed there by voters too stupid to tell a charlatan from a messiah.
The hordes of foreign barbarians are being welcomed with open arms by Democrats and the Rio Grande Juan McKennedy crowd. The dilution of citizenship will probably work out as well for America as it did for Rome.
Rome had a Senate, tribunes, consuls etc to the end. They went through the motions of doing their ancient duties, when in reality they existed to rubber-stamp the diktats of the emperor. He kept senators wealthy and they more or less gladly did his bidding. Rich and alive beats dead every time.
We are very near the same situation. Congressional hearings that deal with major issues have been replaced by “talks” among party leaders. The world's once most deliberative body is a petty collection of demagogues whose interest goes no further than continuance of their wealth and noble status.
Hussein and his despotic successors will never get rid of Congress or the courts; they are/will be essential to sanction and legitimize the coming hard tyranny.