I chalk it up to the fundamental transformation we were told was going to occur. Too many thought that it was going to be a good thing. Good for some maybe, but not for others. When you try to to bring down a superpower, the methodology by its very nature, is going to cause some to crack.
A middle class that has no means to become upper middle class, a lower class that has no means to become middle class. The dirt poor with no means to raise their standard of living. Rising costs, lowering wages. Scarce jobs. Masses of illegal immigrants pushing wages down. Enormous welfare expenditures that are ever growing keeping people locked into a way of life that doesn't suit the human psyche. Wards of the state with nothing but time on their hands to stew and brood and plot revenge against the system. Mental illness becomes more prevalent, along with abhorrent behavior. And justice, all forms of social justice are demanded.
The fundamental transformation is good only for the political class. In the rest, it stirs up emotions and behaviors that humans found relatively easy to control and to suppress when times were good. It brings out the worst in us and there is no way to stop it without reversing our course. We've got 14 more months of the fundamental transformation left.
Sometimes to build what you want you have to tear down what you have. Is that what's happening? I don't know but I can guarantee that if it is, there will be people that will suddenly appear and profess to have the answers and the methodology to restore the calm. To get us back to normalcy. At that point people will accept anyone and anything that offers them hope for a better way of life.
Far fetched? Perhaps. But what if I'm right? Can transformation be done on this scale? Ask yourself if it's been done before and if human nature has changed such that it could never happen again.
On a different note, now the news will be dominated with coverage of this wall to wall for the next 48 hours. Blech.
