The big boys decided the people were getting too uppity.
Imagine, a black man running for President. Big government did away with
oversight and maintenance of the infrastructure. Big finance indulged in faulty
mortgages to increase profits and to strip the public of home equity. The media
popularized the war effort and hid the tax cuts given the wealthy. Reckless
deficit spending and mounting debt lowered the dollar confidence of overseas
investors. The dollar weakened driving up oil prices for Americans, with oil
prices relatively constant for the rest of the world. Consequently, there is an
increase in the demand for oil.
The huge food companies took advantage to triple the price of rice and to make
other products jump in price also. Voodoo economics [giving corporate tax cuts
in time of war] eliminated jobs growth. Indeed, we lose 80,000 jobs every
month.
Unemployment increases, home foreclosures, rising fuel and food prices have
driven consumer confidence to low levels.
Lower consumer spending eliminates jobs. Thus, there is nothing to stop the
downward spiral.
Have a good day.

 It is well nigh impossible to prosecute high US officials
here. They own law enforcement and the judiciary. Possible witnesses are bribed
or murdered.
The President offers a solution. He would declare suspects and witnesses as
enemy combatants and would put them into Gitmo until they confessed [or
implicated those really guilty].