Building Up or Tearing Down

I don't understand why so many of the current administration's policies appear to be geared to tearing down our country. Less oil, less electricity, less food, less transportation, less education and more dependence. If this keeps up we will no longer be the shining city on the hill. I don't understand why some people don't want us to be that shining city anymore. I guess the lack of understanding I have comes from the basic difference between two different groups of people. If I could be in charge of a country, I'd like that country to be outrageously successful. The more successful the country, the more I'd have, right? Those currently in charge seem to prefer ruling over a desolate wasteland - I just don't see the pleasure of that. It does remind me of when I was little and a friend's mom was picking on me. My mom told me that some people find it easier to pull others down than to build themselves up. Too, bad. If we worked together, we could help each other up.