Cocaine and Wall Street
How excess came to rule—and why consequences are reserved for the weak. A time when asking questions becomes an insult, and slurs return to their old duty of oppression, wielded by those who know power best.
How could a civilization allow that buffoon to reach the presidency?
Twice.
the nepo-product of 80s greed culture—an era that worshipped wealth and treated failure as something you could simply pay to erase.
Access was bought. Image was manufactured. Money always won.
His followers fall into two groups. Some are just eager echoes—living proof that critical thinking should be taught in elementary school.
Others hold genuinely disturbing ideas: people who dream of pulling strings, basking in the fantasy of destroying anything that doesn’t fit rules invented in chaos—rules written only for themselves.
They curate justifications for cruelty the way others curate brands. The high of power passed down like an inheritance. Violence steadily mutating into sadism. Not even bothering to pretend self-righteousness.
The supreme leader knows best, and the sheep can’t even have ideas, never mind questions. How dare they think themselves important when they can’t afford to pay for power. As they never shall.
Evil has become a kind of currency. From school playgrounds to political conferences, bullying is celebrated as strength. Soft power is dismissed as weakness. Influencers compete to post the most outrageous take—the tweet so offensive it guarantees attention.
Outrage pays.
And the offense they brandish as if… as if it were an offense at all.
When did being respectful become wrong? When did ethics earn such a bad reputation? When did empathy become embarrassing? How?
Trying to be a decent human being.
This is the country that put a man on the Moon. The country that helped connect the world into a global village. And yet the myth of being the “chosen nation” has blinded millions to a simple truth: the greatest things humanity achieves are done together.
Instead, in the name of superiority, the U.S. risks being remembered for something darker—a maniac leading a cult in a nation that had the tools to do enormous good, and chose hate instead.
Be better, America.
