while concurrently stealing the fruits of the working classes' labor and making the rich even richer
this action also served the very real function of paving the way for another phenomenon I started talking about quite a bit starting in 2011 -- the rise of nationalistic, ultra-right wing parties in Europe (and to a lesser degree, the United States)
that would echo ideas last seen on the world stage this prominently in the 1930's -- with Hitler and Mussolini being the loudest, but not the only, voices
the controlled demolition of global markets served as a precursor to a secondary implosion of liberal democracy
that day isn't coming -- it is already here
fingers are pointing, flags are waiving, the (old) hatreds are brewing, once more
Trump serves his purpose . . . but the shots are called by darker forces
hate sells . . . and (right now) there are plenty of motivated buyers