Going into WW2 the depression was still affecting a lot of people. Winning that war put the US on top. While the country reaped the post-victory rewards our gov

Going into WW2 the depression was still affecting a lot of people. Winning that war put the US on top. While the country reaped the post-victory rewards our government changed. The intelligence community was established. They began to see the US as top dog on the world stage. The the foreign interventions began, starting with Korea, then Vietnam, Central America, The Middle East, and so on. Eisenhower warned of this new complex of US power in his farewell speech. Kennedy was going to do something about it and severely curtail the CIA. Then, IMO, they killed him for it. True US democracy died with Kennedy. Ever since then the American people have been pushed out of the picture more and more by the military-industrial-academic complex. Today we often refer to these people as the "elites". They are the ones that know better, they know who we should get to vote for, who we should send our sons to go fight for vague "national interests". We are the boiled frogs and our democracy is a dystopian nightmare and they are getting away with it because of petty politics.