I saw a ‘tweet’ recently suggesting that the government of the United States has become a ‘criminal organization.’ (I don’t remember precisely when or from whom the ‘tweet’ was issued.) I know that statement is hard to swallow, unpleasant as a root canal. And hard to fathom for those who grew up in the Great Depression and lived through World War II, Camelot, and the Reagan Revolution. It is, however, nonetheless true. Government as mafia. Turns out, Uncle Sam is a capo, head of an unimaginably vast criminal racket. Criminal racket definition: an act of organized crime where one or...