Money gets people elected.

Many of the ultra wealthy are bought in on the idea of cyclical history where things go golden age, decadent age, disaster, GOTO 1

So they fund the side that is most likely to wreck things, happy in the delusion that that must cause a golden age

Then business prefers weak government and little regulation

Then business wants more workers so they support whatever might get more babies born

So less capitalism, more unchecked capitalism and high inequality, and propaganda directed at those in power and the fact that to win in a 2 party democracy you just need to appeal to the bulk of people