As Deep Throut said, "Follow the money."

The elephant in the room is the financial markets could not function without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. This is because while people think of money as a commodity to mine from society, it functions as a contract and accounting device, where the asset is backed by the debt.

The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

The military industrial complex is like the trophy wife of the banks. What they spend the money on to feel important. The wars are just to grow their domain, or destroy competition.

Government, as the executive and regulatory function of society, is analogous to the nervous system and once upon a time it was private. Now private banking, as the blood and circulation system of society, is having its own, "Let them eat cake." moment.