I agree. You and I see it, but we have the masses crying for their bread and circus. I am starting to understand what it must have felt like in the last days of Rome.
The American Left has succeeded, since the 1930s, in telescoping hundreds of years of Roman social history & decline into a little over two generations. Of course those crying for more dependence upon Government, today, are simply economically and historically illiterate. But in a period of social disintegration, the schools, media and politicians lead the parade down hill.
The remnant who are able to see the whole picture, need to step up now, as never before, or we will indeed, very soon go the way of Rome.
Bread and circuses were pretty much ongoing from the first days of Rome. Circus Maximus was rebuilt in 50 BC to hold a quarter million spectators, and free bread was given out from 58 BC on.
The wildest excesses, debauchery and corruption of Rome were under folks like Nero and Caligula, when the empire was still rising, not falling, and managed to survive for centuries after. So, cheer up!