Donald Trump's Infamous wall on our southern border is not the "wall" US citizens should be most concerned about. There is a far more troubling "wall" regarding our government once established as "of the people, by the people and for the people". That would be the wall of money the greediest of great wealth among "we the People" have constructed around themselves and access to the processes of government in the USA at the Federal, State and Local levels to varying degrees.
We've been in this situation before but back then there were less than 1/4 as many people in the USA and no electronic media of any kind nor anything like the similarly totally conglomerated print medium we have today in the USA to buy our attention with.
How did we get to being an oligarchy, as living past US Presidents have accurately(?) described 21st century US government? There are probably a bunch of theories but I trace it back to the "greed is good" days of the Ronald Reagan Presidency and the beginnings of dismantlement of the regulatory system that preserved access of ALL people to the processes of government and the integrity of the National assets we all depend upon for survival.
The strongest blow against resistance to the progress toward our current oligarchy came from the US Supreme Court in a series of 5-4 rulings dismantling the protections of our election campaign and lobbying systems by regulation of money's influence over them. They essentially put those systems up for purchase by the highest bidders by literally equating money with free speech with no limits.
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