and yet the only thing the government is actually concerned with was civil unrest.

It makes sense, if you think about it. All our country’s problems are self-inflicted; the system is acting exactly as intended.

The individual culprits’ intents may not be exactly to revert the country back to feudalism (or to mask-off fascism), but collectively and effectively, it is what it is, and none of them are willing to change course (because it would eat into their bottom line). All the various rentiers that truly constitute the government and institutions of this country (the cartels/oligopolies, landlords, etc) are moving this country exactly in that direction.