Thanks for the ping.
I don’t get the outrage. This sort of stuff has been going on since, at least, the cointelpro days.
Amoral, spiritually dead people will elect amoral, spiritually dead politicians who will in turn do amoral, spiritually dead things. And yet we think we’re going to fix this by electing a particular flavor of politician?
Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.
People, en masse, have largely forgotten God, and without that consciousness, people will be narrowly and selfishly venal. Efforts to do the longsighted, honorable thing will simply get hooted at and disregarded at best.
What can the would-be righteous do? The only answer I can see is to spread more consciousness of God. Because the American system wasn’t built to work around any other kind of consciousness.