Government officials from the top to the bottom have been corrupted somehow, or these bad decisions would NOT be made. Someone’s getting money/drugs/sex/etc. or all four to make bad decisions. Those who are doing such must be found, arrested, tried and executed for treason. Unless that happens pretty quickly, we will probably be destroyed in ONE DAY, just like Babylon.
The author is railing against a fundamental tenet of Communism.
The corruption is of the voter base. The Communists have gotten what they vote for. The “safety nets” are becoming fishing nets.
There is also, undoubtedly, crime. All of Congress become millionaires - miraculously! But, I think, this has been allowed to happen due to Communism.
Limited Government has become Government Unlimited.
Nothing says we have to help other nations & particularly not those who won’t do what they can to help themselves. Of course we can’t solve the problve of using what they have where it is most needed, hence the poor remain poor & the uneducated remain the same. I guess we went in to keep the Communists out, but it seems maybe not to have worked. It was stated many years ago, early in the life of our country, that it was not wise to get involved in foreaign affairs. I guess some in our country thought otherwise. How soon we get old and too late smart.