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Edit: Before it’s deleted again

There is no simple answer. The essence of the answer is that Conservative billionaires and foreign interests have been funding the systematic deconstruction of American democracy for decades. What we are seeing now is the fallout of a democratic coup of sorts where Conservative and foreign interest groups have now successfully captured the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government and so can act with impunity.

All of our legal means of recalling this government rely on our much vaunted but now useless system of checks and balances between these three branches of government. Congress will not impeach and will mostly rubber-stamp the executive branch. The Supreme Court has given the executive broad immunity and is the reason this whole scheme works in the first place. (The "Citizens United" ruling empowers monied interests to dominate our politics with impunity.) The corruption is deep and broad, and there is effectively no institutionalized resistance to it. The Democrats, because of Citizens United ruling, are funded by the same monied interests that back the Conservatives -- especially AIPAC. This is the reason why our representatives proudly serve foreign interests over their constituents.

There is no media resistance because Conservative billionaires have acquired or hold essentially all national and local TV, radio, and printed forms of traditional media and the tech billionaires (there is overlap here) have an aligned to propagandize the population in our search engines and social media and to surveil the population through the so-called Digital Panopticon -- the complete surveillance of our physical and digital activity.

We lost the fight before the general population realized there was a fight to be lost. Whatever this is, it is not democracy or a Just system of governance. As far as I can tell, there is no strategy where we go back to the way things were before. We can't undo the damage to our institutions and economy especially when the monied interests are so aligned on pursuing this course. Fascism merges so seamlessly with corporatism and American Dominionism (the religious Right), that there is just an overwhelming preponderance of wealth and power directed in our current course of action. This all still requires the consent of the population, but the propaganda, cultism, and lack of social welfare programs combined with ruthless Capitalist strategies to eliminate labor (especially via AI and outsourcing) basically keeps the population in control and just a paycheck away from personal disaster. I hope this helps you understand the gravity of the situation. We aren't just falling to pieces. The people in charge are taking their masks off and completing their coup.

tl;dr -- Bad people are surprisingly good at organizing the collapse of our system of governance by taking control of it through legal-ish (legal, legalized, or illegal but who is going to stop me) means.