Parts of the US are turning into Third World conditions. But don't tell the elite that. They're doing fine, and they have numbers that tell them how great ever

Parts of the US are turning into Third World conditions. But don't tell the elite that. They're doing fine, and they have numbers that tell them how great everything is. Orwell meets pre-collapse USSR, with homages to a number of empires of yesteryear, overlaid with a Gilded Age veneer. Something with as much momentum as the United States will not peacefully come to a full stop. It may continue to slide to a slow halt, or explosively disassemble in some fashion.