> Western countries have been utterly strangled by nonprofits

To expand, there are two major problems with nonprofits in Western nations these days:

1. Governments use them as a way to do things that they themselves are not allowed to do ("it's private charities that do this!", ignoring the fact that the charities get >90% of their revenue from government grants)

2. Like you mentioned, the government grants to nonprofit back to politicians' campaign funds pipeline. Utterly egregious.

> Obama even expanded the rules in the US to allow the government to unconstitutionally fund religious groups to accomplish functions that belong in government

I wasn't aware of this being a big concern; more the other way around, like in my point 1.