California

…who are sure democracy has run its course and that they should be in charge. Billionaires Without Borders, actually — what’s a nation to them but a cash cow to be milked and a flock of sheep to be sheared?

While you and I were trying to earn a living and also working for the common good when we had time, they had their eyes on much greater goals — such as becoming extraordinarily rich and powerful, two achievements that proved beyond a doubt that they deserved to be.

As a side gig, and just for giggles and shits as a friend of mine puts it, they also supported a burgeoning religious movement that promised its adherents that if God loved them they too would become rich. And if instead they remained poor, unhealthy, and up to their ears in debt, that meant God did not love them because they were doing something wrong.

See what a lovely circle of justification that makes?