Sounds like you have some boot tracks on your colon.
Why strange?
If you look at the end of the Soviet Empire, everyone who wasn't on the government gravy train, and many who were, were either actively monkeywrenching the system, or looking the other way when it happened.
That is the likely outcome in the U.S.: Not a shooting war, but an erosion of the ability of the state to keep competent people enforcing intrusive laws and regulations.
IRS employees already inbreed because humans won't touch them. Cops have a distinct culture of casual fraud, drinking, divorce and suicide. Just give a JBT a shove on his way down, and pretty soon, they will have to lower standards to the point that FLEAs will be neutered by ineffictiveness.