- America elects Reagan and the UK Thatcher both huge advocates of Neoliberalism and trickle down economics (a myth).
- Globalization and increasing tolerance for mergers creating monopolies.
- Jobs move overseas and wages begin to stagnate.
- The divide between rich and poor starts to skyrocket in earnest as the rich control and manipulate markets.
- Conservative leaders try to mask the problem by ramping up the culture wars
- 2008 financial collapse followed by COVID in 2020
- America elects a blithering idiot and criminal (twice no less) to assuage the people who are desperately falling behind.
- It fails miserably
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