The US is becoming a hollow state in which oligarchic factions wield the machinery of government to funnel money into their coffers via bloated military projects, mass incarceration in private prisons, regulatory capture, etc. Politics is pure kayfabe, team oligarch vs team state
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the core of a liberal democratic state is supposed to be the consent of the governed. the implicit social contract is that the state works for the people, to uphold their interests and promote the general welfare. if they don't do this the core has become hollow.
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