Certainly, communications were directed to a specific individual. If we have the written directives, who are they addressed to and what did that person do with them? Better yet, why are we having to ask these questions instead of those we elect to speak for us?
Government is getting too big and the population is too desensitized. In the 50’s, everybody would have been thrown out over this. Now, it is barely worth a yawn among the electorate.
If you read my site, you will see my work looking at amygdala development, political orientation, r/K Selection Theory, and environmental conditions. A comfortable, secure environemnt fails to adequately train the amygdala to drive defensive actions when threatened.
We’ve had it pretty easy for pretty long, so the populace’s collective amygdala just isn’t developed enough to freak them out over this. With time, this will change, but it will require the implosion of the debt bomb and some harsh times, to bring everybody’s amygdalae up to speed, and bring sanity back to the populace.
Truth be told, it is all part of a natural cycle that occurs in any population. Free resources -—>population adopts an r-maximizing psychology (aversion to competition/threat, promiscuity/early age of sexualization of young, low loyalty to in-group)-—> population maxes out, resources become limited, competition begins -—>population turns K (competitive/aggressive, monogamous, later age of sexualization, high loyalty to in-group)