Weaponizing Patronage. Avarice and greed can lead to self destruction. It may have become our fate. It's an illness that has befallen us. It breeds mistrust in what is told us. We still think our values are what the rest of the world will follow. But that isn't going to work anymore. We may have a powerful military but that can't defend us from our own failed expectations as a people. Our manifest destiny isn't with children killing children. Patronage and machine politics can be weaponized to stay in power. Thousands of new IRS workers.