It is obvious to many that the chaos is an intentional tactic of the 1%. Crises are manufactured in order to weaken governments, trap them into toxic debt, corrupt them, etc. This allows privatization of public assets at fire sale prices.
“I do not think that the elites are any longer succeeding in manipulating their low-level followers. I think the low-level followers are defying the elites, doing their own thing, and trying to manipulate the elites. This is indeed something new. It is a bottom-up rather than a top-down politics.”
“Low-level followers” is too ambiguous to analyze in detail, but the middle and low-level followers of robber barons and great pirates are crooks who steal from each other and from their bosses but they can only go so far as the leashes they are kept on. That’s how it has always been.
In any case, the rich are continuing to consolidate their grip on power by destabilizing, corrupting, and toppling uncooperative regimes around the world. They are only getting stronger and richer.
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