This is part of the picture of the decaying American ruling class and its loyal well heeled servants. The great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy associated drunkenness and dope addiction with a bad conscience , with moral decay . A decadent capitalist society must point a finger at foreign enemies. Stay tuned ! How is our American plutocracy and its upper class employees on a higher moral level than Putin's POST-COMMUNIST oligarchy in Russia ? Note how depraved Hollywood Babylon slobbers over " progressive " WOKE Democrats . " Slouching Toward Gomorrah " ?