Dugout

The average Republican millionaire wonder wakes up in the dugout of daddy's team and is told he has hit a home run, which he has, by being born. Barring precocious incompetence, and maybe even with it, their lives are then set. 

It used to be that the family money was made drafting off the federal government one way or another. That's the thing that has changed most significantly. They now see greater opportunities to make money in other ways. 

So there's a huge marketing campaign to convince people that government is the enemy and corporations incarnated goodness. Self-interest poses as philanthropy. Greed as charity. Cynicism as faith. But they are investors.

Looking for returns. And the returns, since the advent of Republican hegemony, have been immense. It doesn't take much effort to document Republican reassurances that cutting taxes on the wealthy will benefit everyone.

Going back forty years. It didn't turn out to be true. We are now on track to become a country in which inherited wealth dominates everything, an invisible empire, unaccountable to any individual or institution, and international. 

And ruthless. It's a game and we have lost. Human lives are included in the stakes, and the success or failure of countries. Being on top is relative, so their philosophy of creative destruction doesn't mean they always win.

But on balance and over time the privileged class breaks away from the pack, leaving the mass of humanity struggling behind. This is how the pressure builds for cataclysm. The rich are okay even with that. 

 

They think this sort of thing is inevitable.