Our Pathology. I'll never forgive what was done to this country. Consumerism didn't make us stronger, it destroyed important values. The 30, 40 and 50 year career politicians in our Federal Government went along with those values, running this country into the ground, producing the greatest debt in history. Consumerism was good for business and made big government bigger. Buying more stuff made government revenues go up. But when there were recessions it made people obsolete. It produced avarice, greed and illness in America.