Once upon a time there was a large nation that had 5 levels of government: Federal, State, County, Municipal, and Districts. There were 50 states and territories each with hundreds of counties, each with several municipalities and each municipality with several districts. It was understood by everyone that they were comfortably independent of each-other, under the watchful eye of the authority from the above tier who ultimately obeyed the human rights for every individual set forth in the national constitution.
One day someone noticed there were too many news reports on the Internet showing brutal police tactics from all over the country. There was also an increase in reports of police officers breaking laws. Something was odd. There was an emerging pattern of behavior in public officials all over the country, especially in the lower tiers of county and city government.
The strange pattern of behavior led to research that showed in many counties, a few of the same people who were members of the local Chamber of Commerce were also trustees and board members of hospitals, universities and appointees to high government positions by the governors or mayors they helped elect.
In the cities, the public outcry was fierce to have the chiefs of police resign after their officers used unnecessary force that resulted in too many deaths. Many of the chiefs did resign, but that didn't help because they were not the ones who vetted the new recruits to the police academies. A special brutal psychological profile was desired for the ranks of police recruits all across the country. This pattern of behavior implied that somewhere there was written explicit instructions to recruit officers with violent anti-social tendencies.
While the public was distracted by their political representatives, senators, governors and presidents, the nation in the shadows was being organized by the National Chamber of Commerce, creating a network of local chambers of commerce made up of the moneyed interest groups that paid for the campaigns of their preferred, distracting political candidates.
I wouldn't have believed this either until I heard that the local chamber of commerce in a small town welcomed with open arms, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and other superstores that ran all the local businesses into foreclosure and bankruptcy.
