The premise of the piece depends on making a connection between BBY and the US. I'm not sure it works. > In the American context, my personal view is that Bill

The premise of the piece depends on making a connection between BBY and the US. I'm not sure it works. > In the American context, my personal view is that Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presided over Bust Out 1, Barack Obama orchestrated Bust Out 2, and Donald Trump kicked off the lulz period, which we are now squarely in. I mean, how can you understand Trump and Biden as anything other than lulz? Those BBY bust-outs were its leadership sucking the company dry. How did Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump suck the country dry? I'm not saying those leaders were effective but rather asking the more specific question about the connection between those administrations and the BBY serial vampire syndrome. The article seems to be saying that wealth/vitality was somehow sucked from the US into the leaders themselves or their cronies. If so, name names. Or at least offer a single example. Instead, the article ends up with a much less interesting message. The US is going down the tubes and has been for a long time. That's a very old idea that may go back to the country's founding. It doesn't offer new insights. It doesn't open new perspectives. It just riles people up for a time. It's the kind of thing that politicians looking for new slogans to congeal a base of support turn to in campaign speeches so they can portray themselves as the only one who can drain the swamp.