We are now just a nation of looters.
Didn't you get the memo?
We got the memo in 1936, when FDR threatened to stack the court unless he got his way.
Which he did.
It was inevitable that it would turn out this way, but the Free Republic had a pretty good run.
The next phase should be a civil war followed by a more or less autonomous good ruler that is selected by the military. i.e., a Caesar Augustus.