@jwcph @pluralistic Also the social contract has generally crumbled due to the nonsense of The Right that people are turning to.Step 1: Destroy the social and/or economic orderStep 2: Maintain just enough power to prevent the party that swept into power from quickly cleaning up the messStep 3: Shift the blame for the mess onto the new party.Step 4: Win the next election by promising to fix the very thing that you broke.Repeat until you mess with the money too much.