Unfortunately it has been like this for awhile now. Now that it is obvious, people are finally noticing.
What we are witnessing in the US is the special kind of privilege and cluelessness that growing up extremely wealthy gets you, except now we put these people in charge.
When I was in uni, I had a classmate on the wealthier side of life. Dinner at his place was always quite astonishing to me as a girl from a much poorer background. We were BFFs though and he invited me into this world I never knew existed and I got a glimpse at how the other side lives.
He told a story of his cousin who scoffed at someone having to change her own bedsheets. She said "My sheets never smell" to which her mother said "that's because the maid changes them every week".
So much happens around these people that are invisible. They have no idea at the hard labour that happens underneath to give them their excess and privilege. They think the world is just magic.
Now these privileged twits are in power. They have no idea what happens in the background to keep electricity running. They have no idea what it takes to keep clean water running into our homes. Despite being the ones to use the airports the most, they have no idea what it takes to keep planes from crashing into each other.
They are now dismantling this infrastructure piece by piece because the invisible magic is just a cost to them as they can't "see" the benefits (until they can).
These clueless idiots are now completely in charge. They've been handed sledge hammers (despite not being elected to anything), and are making decisions like monarchs without any of the requisite "at least go tour around and see what your country is like".
I don't have any solutions, but fully expect the muskrat to start coming after critical infrastructure bc he's frankly too stupid to understand how things work. Expect e coli in your water. Expect electricity grids to fail. There will be chaos in a failed state.
My only advice would be to start educating yourself about critical infrastructure so you can talk to neighbours around you and be prepared to be loud when they go after it.
It's going to be terrible to lose your national parks... but not as terrible as losing drinking water.
Be loud, it's the best hope. Good luck.
