Yep, they know and are complicit.
And a number of them sensing there is trouble brewing have decided to cash their chips and retire. Others still have been offered positions they cannot refuse and stepped out.
There are still bastions of sanity scattered through the nation. Texas has some, OK is mostly sane and many other states to varing degrees.
As RJ Ringer once said many years ago. The whole world is turned upside down, you can live right side up but it takes some effort. (from “How to find happiness during the Collapse of Western Civilization.” published in 1983. (I still have a copy in my library)
Cool quote!
I think, in my tin foil fantasies, that reality split in the 90s. The real one is out there in the multiverse on a divergent timeline and we got stuck on this one.
I blame HAARP....