1 — Staggering Increase in the Cost of Elections, with Dubious Campaign Funding Sources
2 — Politics as the Road to Personal Wealth
3 — Continuous War: A national state of security arises, distracting attention from domestic challenges with foreign wars
4 — Foreign Powers Lavish Money/Attention on the Republic’s Leaders
5 — Profits Made Overseas Shape the Republic’s Internal Policies
6 — Collapse of the Middle Class
7 — Gerrymandering
8 — Loss of the Spirit of Compromise