When your descendants (if they survive long enough) ask how the World ended up in the state it's in ...

Know that it's in part due to the reality that the United States isn't (and hasn't ever been) a democracy.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/18/majority-of-democrats-join-senate-gop-to-pass-trumps-900-billion-pentagon-wish-list/ 

Enabling a nearly $1 Trillion dollars for weapons and violence has to rank up there with all the massive upward wealth transfers in modern times.