It's sadly quite simple: culturally conservative N. American's have restructured public policy (via unilateral free trade agreements, an ethos of privatization, and fetishized moral individualism) to aid the confusion of wealth hoarding with democracy.

Actually you missed a few things, but nothing that a wealth/imperialism apologist would choose to wrap their head around (until too late of course).

Moral individualism (via the privatization ethos) at its finest.

... (missed edit cutoff) although getting it from anesthetization probably qualifies more as disease, than its incidence as evolutionary or cultural strategy.

What doesn't give (Westerners) ADHD these days?

It's ignorant interpretations of, and technocratic attitudes toward justice, democracy, etc., that drive people to commit 'treason'.... BM did just what a responsible citizen should.