Our Masters are (a little) nervous.
It's easy to tell any time this happens. When the people that matter (a perpetually terrified group) are watching what you're watching, a seemingly senseless campaign to convince you that what-you-are-seeing-isn't-real ensues.
In the last few weeks I've noticed what appears to be yet another campaign to defend the indefensible feeling its way into an acceptable form.
Bill & Melinda Gates aren't feeling enough love in advance of his "Foundation's" latest purchase of your choices regarding their agendas, and neither are their peers.
Conclusion; we are about to be regaled with an assortment of PR efforts to convince us that they are simply people, just like you, doing the best they can with what they have.
Do you believe this? Even a little?
Their necessarily heavy-handed moves to eviscerate public education in the name of corporate profits are primarily responsible for leaving a bad taste in the mouths of what has very recently been determined to be too many well heeled people that both care enough to pay attention and that own enough to, possibly, matter.
The ripples of this discontent have been noticed, and the circles they describe are somewhat worrisome.
Jamie, having been sufficiently assured by his favorite employees, has mostly smoothed the Wall Street tremens, but an uneasiness persists among the perpetually guilty.
Times, they are a changin'. Real estate, the traditional prerogative of the Pritziker's and their robber baron ilk, is being disturbed by foreigners. Not that foreigners buying assets is a problem, but they are paying too much. What's a parasite to do?
Energy is another potential disaster in the making, thanks to the Chinese and the slave labor-direct-sales model we sold them. Our domestic parasites' profit requirements are far too high to tolerate such competition, OTOH, they are paying the same rate as we are for oil...
It's a conundrum.
Parasites need a host to exist.
Our parasites need an extraordinarily large host to survive.
Their activities are killing the host, but there is yet no other host capable of supporting them, and despite the heroic efforts of this administration to sustain them, they are facing a future as inevitable as that created by the earth's altered weather patterns.
So the question becomes; How does a dominant parasite grow a host strong enough to support it, but still retain control over it?