It might be politics all the way down, but it's economics all the way up and the rip in this ship is that debt.
Debt doesn't matter. Until it does.
The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
The puppet masters have been firing the smart ones that wouldn't do what they are told and hiring dumb ones that would, that the current crop of seat warmers would make the average kindergarten class look smart.
That Donald Trump, the Kim Kardashian of the 80's, is the Great White Whale of the establishment, just goes to show how hollow it all is.
They might be evil, but they are not geniuses.
Greed and fear is all they know.