Anyone who has read The Shock Doctrine should be familiar with these concepts. Essentially creating turmoil, economic and otherwise helps those who have a plan to take advantage of it. In the 1970s under the most immoral shitbag of a Secretary of State (Henry the K) the Reich Wing of US politics and power created many proto fascist connections: Greece, Indonesia, and of course, Chile. After the election of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1970, the Oligarchy in that country staged a prolonged economic hissy fit designed to destabilize the new government and create circumstances that could justify the forceful seizure of power. (Sound familiar?) Henry Kissinger’s fingerprints were all over covert US assistance in these efforts. This included all kinds of economic ratfucking and a completely illegal assassination of the the head of Chile’s Army, General Rene Schnieder, for which the US supplied the weapons and the OK signal directly from the Nixon Administration through the CIA. (These are undisputed facts by the way, and Henry Kissinger still roams free and garners respect from way too many people to this day.) We actively created the Pinochet nightmare for Chile and we better start studying Chile’s history of the 1970s and 80s, because we might be about to repeat a version of it.
Most of that inflation and corporate profiteering? Its a twofer—not only do the C Suites and the largest shareholders get enormous windfalls from our economic pain, they also set the stage for the newly improved Fascist Trump GQP to take power again. Those nasty things our CIA developed and exported decades ago are now being geared up to assault us at home. Am I paranoid? Not by a long shot. Its so simple really its fucking obvious. The reason the GOP never stopped or even tried to moderate Trump is because they are in on it. Those GOP reps who are not are either out of politics or about to be (Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger). Its not a “conspiracy” but instead a close alignment of interests similar to what C. Wright Mills described in The Power Elite so many decades ago. They don’t have to collude officially, their common interests form the common cause away from democracy and an effective Federal Government to the “free market” paradise that will accelerate our march toward dystopia. The fact that so many GOP reps, senators, governors etc. are not doing a thing about it and are instead running toward it tells you all you need to know. The Republican party and a significant portion of Corporate America have given up on democracy and they are looking to keep their taxes low and never let the promise of general economic prosperity for the general population rear its head again. They have to make some distasteful allies, Evangelicals with their ridiculous abortion demands, and the racist Y’all Queda, but those are small prices to pay to not only keep their wealth but gather an even larger percentage of the pie. Let’s face it, they’re all white and its never hard for a Republican leader to get an abortion, illegal or otherwise, for any of their wives, girlfriends or mistresses.