US invents ways to profit from moral indecency

20 January 2026

American culture is so rotten . . .

. . . that it no longer bothers to conceal its putridness.

For example

Have you noticed how legalized sports gambling in America is rather obviously distorting the outcomes of at least some games?

Especially so, in the National Football League. Where suspicions are increasingly evident that referees are intentionally affecting final scores. No doubt in return for a few dollars from Elite donors, who profit from betting on the planned outcomes that they know are coming.

Not to mention all the money raked in by the gambling businesses that platform these forms of moral corruption.

This American cultural trend exactly parallels the ways . . .

. . . that President Trump instigates international upsets with his tariffs and wars. All that, so as to profit himself and the Plutocrats he serves.

Naturally, We the Sheep go along with it all

'Cause what's a scraggly fleece-bearer to do?

Maybe he and she can haul in few pennies, now and again.

Addictions to avarice

Where I live, advertisements encouraging sports gambling are all over television.

What used to be considered a vice in the United States is now an institutionally promoted activity.

It is especially indicative of the morally disintegrating nature of our culture, that these same ads often contain a brief reminder that one can get help for a gambling addiction somewhere else.

In short — Do evil, but help is available, if your evil gets out of hand.

Just what the personal and societal totality of 'out of hand' is, no one is honest enough to state.

Societally speaking, an especially perverted twist

Caitlin Johnstone observed that:

I can’t get over the fact that people were casting bets on whether the US would bomb Iran the other day. It just says such dark things about the type of civilization we are living in.

In this dystopia, Americans are never given the option to vote for a president who won’t bomb foreign countries in wars of aggression. But they do have the option to gamble on when those bombs will be dropped.

Think about ramifications . . .

. . . of these institutionalized mechanisms of vice.

Just as with gambling's polluting effect on the integrity of NFL games — what is going on culture-wide viciously distorts Reality:

On the popular platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, armchair prognosticators wagered millions of dollars on the fate of Iran’s supreme leader, speculating the same way a football fan might bet on the future of a struggling head coach.

Polymarket and Kalshi are prediction markets, sites where people can bet on virtually anything . . . .

The same weekend that Mr. Trump mulled intervention in Iran, Polymarket odds were featured in the telecast of the Golden Globe Awards.

Major media companies, including CNN, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal, have announced partnerships with prediction markets and integrated the platforms’ data into news reports.

The amount of money flowing onto the platforms has skyrocketed. Nearly $12 billion was traded on Kalshi and Polymarket in December . . . .

The companies raised billions from investors last year, making them some of the tech industry’s most promising start-ups. And they share a link to the Trump family: Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son, is an adviser to both firms.

You can imagine how . . .

. . . these scheming conglomerates will mold news, so as to lead to the outcomes and interventions that the conglomerates want to profit from.

Additionally, when the Trump name is associated with anything at all — it is always ethics-free pillaging.

The moral? — We are a culture that is well beyond . . .

. . . the slightest hope of salvation.

Shahid Bolsen's Islamicist take on the United States is dead-on accurate:

Middle Nation, American Panic, YouTube (16 January 2026)

Though I suspect that Bolsen may be too optimistic about comparative moral virtues of Islamic culture. Certainly so, regarding those geographic parts of it dominated by tyrants and terrorists. Nevertheless, it is true that the Koran emphasizes the primacy of moral behavior with a directness that we Americans have not for many-many decades, if ever.

One might then ponder how Russian Orthodoxy, communist Chinese Confucianism, and global Islam are going to outpoint (supposedly 'Christian') American moral sloth in the not-so-distant future.

Signs of the coming outcome are already prominently in the wind. Cowardly addictions to comfort and pillage, American style, are not sound societal strategies.

Exactly Shahid Bolsen's point.

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US invents ways to profit from moral indecency