“It is not logical for a mature individual to ruin the country for personal wealth.”
Sure it is. Both logical and EVIL. In their twisted little psyches, taking a wrecking ball to the republic is perfectly logical if not desirable for certain parts of the political leadership. If you were to believe that you will personally gain from the destruction and that you won’t be held to account for doing so, it does make some logical sense.
I didn’t say it was good. Quite the contrary, I think it’s evil as hell. But don’t make the mistake of ascribing benevolent motives to those who don’t actually have them.
I think it’s illogical to ignore one’s promise to God to take care of the country as a duty and to then blow it off.
Hell exists whether we believe in it or not and it’s illogical to opt for eternity in Hell over money
The Hamiltonian, or business, approach to government has always been "Empire without the King". In that, Hamilton (once Washington's ADC) actually subverted the liberty interest of the People in favor of -- let's call it by its name -- access capitalism.
Money doesn't care about the size or shape of government. It cares about its quarterlies.
The ability of the business interest to blink its own destruction was proved by the businessmen of Carthage long ago, who denied Hannibal the large tranches of cash he needed actually to dissolve the Roman captive-alliance system, which was already putting 20+ legions in the field and eventually destroyed Carthage utterly.*
They simply refused to pay for their own safety, very much like the "wooden-gun" Republican Congresses of the Gilded Age and the 1920's.
*(Footnote)The virtuous, homespun, "little Italian town" mythology of Roman beginnings, as marketed by Livy and others, was always a children's bedtime story. Rome was always, from the post-regal fifth century BC onward, the biggest city in Italy and its political and military heavyweight. The place probably had more than 100,000 inhabitants well before the Punic Wars. Its political m.o. was indistinguishable from that of a modern Mafia syndicate.