How is it that a few a-holes in power get to destabilize society without consequences?
I expect that we are going to have to wait for history to tell us how much of DC was infiltrated and corrupted under the Dark One.
It was bad enough, before, but I think the stage was really being set during that presidency.
At this point in time I think we could say that about this entire nation... But Seattle....it's like a city that's comprised of half sadist and the other half masochist...
But in the end I guess it just comes down to, well, like the man said, you get the government you deserve...
It's the way of the world. Part of the human condition. Not unusual at all, in fact "normal" that evil prevails over good, on earth. many platitudes on the subject, "When good men do nothing ..." being one such.
all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
See too the bad guys being in control of the legal system, often noted as "two tier justice." many examples of the legal system running hard aganst nominally decent people, the January 6 defendants being a small example.
And plenty of more significant events in history - genocides are also part of the human condition. The bad guys get away with it as least as often as they pay an earthly price.