Exactly, and an indictment of the aggressive cluelessness of American voters too. I prefer intelligent people making informed decisions, regardless of their net worth.
I'm not American but I see this as the only tenable way out of this mess. The percentage of brain rot is simply too high for the country to function as a unified federal state, and needs to go back to what you've described (which was basically the idea of the US at the outset, or also a bit like Brazil or the EU of today)
The Totenkopf has always been associated with the Nazis.
To be pedantic, it actually predates Nazis by quite a bit, it was in use during the Empire - but by modern'day standards it's absolutely associated with nazis.
The guy collecting empties in the highway culvert is also generating revenue, but that doesn't mean his enterprise is worth 5 billion dollars.
Edit: I meant "trillion" but I'm so unused to actually typing that number out because it's so absurdly large