It‘s almost as if billionaires who own the media landscape are plotting to dismantle democracy by giving the monster who screams the loudest and most violent things the most attention.

Capitalism tends to reward the most sociopathic and psychopathic of behaviors with wealth and power under the guise of "it's just business", because morals/ethics are expensive, and greed/crime/corruption pays. Anything that isn't explicitly illegal is fair game, so the criminals and corrupt prosper (and even when they do extremely illegal shit, they use their wealth to corrupt their way out of justice).

Those who succeed hoard their wealth. Wealth = power, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. As their wealth/power grows, they grow more and more corrupt and sociopathic/psychopathic. They use their wealth to corrupt, coerce, and exploit everyone and everything (like the legislative, executive, and judiciary), until they own the entire political class, legal and justice system; grooming each generation from the big club of wealthy private social circles and schools.

It's a vicious self-selecting cycle that preferences the most greedy and selfish, and they collude to keep moral and ethical people out of the club. They also pass on their corruption, greed and sociopathy/psychopathy to their children; both psychologically and via generational wealth/power.

Basically, "liberal democracy" is an oxymoron, because under capitalism 99% of businesses and corporations are their own oligarchy/plutocracy, competing with other oligarchy/plutocracy in a greediest psychopath takes all game. It's actually rather psychotic to believe that democracy can coexist with a system that is 99% oligarchy/plutocracy, but the sociopaths and psychopaths benefit from making you hate your fellow rats who are trading their labor to survive the same rat race, the same as you, than the people so wealthy they can rape children on their private island with impunity; so wealthy/powerful that they own our intelligence agencies, and their right to rape children is protected by the state.