Wealth inequity is the surest way for rich people to fuck themselves out of being rich.
Over time, wealth (and the power that always goes with it) migrates upwards. More and more money and power are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, until just a very small number of plutocrats are running the whole show.
In order for that to work, less and less money and power has to be shared by more and more people, until folks come to understand that they've been left with nothing more to lose.
That's when the man on the white horse rides in, riles 'em up and they crash the plutocrats' party in the most unpleasant ways - all in the name of goodness and patriotism and Making America Great Again.
To be sure, there's a righteousness about trying to even things up - trying to get equilibrium back into the thing. But when a system is as badly out of balance as it is in USAmerica Inc, people get desperate. And desperate people do some pretty crazy (ie: stoopid) things - like following the wrong guys who talk them into doing some really fucked shit.
Trump is the deceiver.
If I ignore what I consider the silliness of people who believed in gods and demons and a geocentric universe, and look to the basic human circumstances that seem to prevail no matter the place or time, I can get pretty cozy with the warnings of a mad monk in a cave 1800 years ago, trying to suss out why so many rich people act like such dicks, and why it's so easy for them to sucker so many normal everyday otherwise-clear-thinking folks.
It is a wonderment.
BTW - looking at Trump as that false messiah helps explain the fucked up "logic" of American Evangelicals.
And also too - the parallels with Nazi occultism are getting really freaky.
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