Tiffany & Co.

A certain ideology becomes epidemiological, as is currently the case in the USA, when a worldview is wrapped in wads of ten dollar bills that grow exponentially through hot and cold wars to sums that are unimaginable, and both the rubber band factory that produces the product that wraps the cash and the paper bag factory, in which the wad or wads of cash are dropped to be delivered to people in high places, are shuttered, so that there is no longer the timely and reliable means of corporate political wealth distribution.

The gradual breakdown of the social system--hastened by the worldwide pandemic--leaves the American consumer constantly asking, "can I get my money back?" when asked about a particular politician's voting record or a matter of public policy that a politician(s) has enacted on behalf of the American consumer.

This is what leadership in the throes of deterioration looks like: a bunch of wet paper sacks containing wads of ten dollar bills held together by red, white, and blue rubber bands. 

The law is no longer the law, it's something other than the law, the something other which has been or is in the act of becoming the law, the law Christians like to say they live by, the same Christians that are making the law they do not live by.  

By the way, whatever happened to the quaint notion, invoked not all that long ago by government officials, journalists, and concerned citizens like me, of 'following the money?' 

Jewelry advertising employing the language of epidemiology and democracy, The New York Times, Saturday, June 6, 2020.