What you wrote is heart wrenching, and I think very common. No society can last when it doesn’t properly reward those who play by the rules. No society can prosper and continuously move forward without those who are willing to delay gratification and work for the future. There are solutions, but they aren’t going to be easy.
It’s just SOCIALISM. Come on . .it’s here. It’s BEEN here, for a long time. It is like a cancer, a weed ...it just creeps in — lands on fertile soil and just sprouts. The fertile soil is complacency and Godlessness, indifference, haughtiness. America has been in a trance due to prosperity for the past 40-50 years ...we’re WEAK, sick ... look at the Bostonites, cowering in their homes — look at the pothead festival ...it’s PATHETIC what Americans have become. I want off THIS merry go round ... just put me out on the farm and leave me alone ... lol. Sad way to think, I know (plus, I just want to be ready for the gargantuan collapse that is sure to ensue ...)
It's also envy, resentment, and the cultivation and exploitation of that envy and resentment by those lusting for stature and power.
Also, never underestimate the role of the academe in all of this. The Clintons, Obama, a bevy of Supreme Court justices and a ton of judges, most of Congress, the MSM, our educators at all levels, are all products of and have been influenced by a very leftist academe.