And their propagandists have the idiots begging for more.

They want an aristocracy and a working class just like in a Charles Dickens novel. I am sure their only regret is that it is not happening fast enough.

Who are "they"? Republicans at the bidding of their corporate masters, of course.

The rich push too far and crash the system, the poor demand reforms, those who experienced it die off and the new generation starts eroding the reforms. It's no coincidence that the trickle-down theory and the idea that poverty is a moral issue, last seen in the Gilded Age, came back into fashion just as the people who remembered the Crash of 29 started dying off in large numbers.

All of this has happened before, all of it will happen again. Which is, admittedly, small comfort to those living through it.

This time they crashed the economy just before the democrats took over, and created an 'alternate reality' news so that the blame didn't fall square on the republican shoulders.

They don't want their followers familiar with history, but I expect that they have a handle on it.

It's sadly quite clever.

I have a horrible suspicion that this time, the plebs are too placated by mindless pablum to revolt.

TV is getting so crappy these days that I think that most folks would be glad to just walk away from it.

It would probably have to wait until after football season though.

For EXACTLY the ways and means that you described here, Prophet 451. Eighty years - presumably the time it takes for, say, those who lived through the Great Depression in the last century, saw the need for what FDR brought us with the New Deal, and saw the benefits and how that helped dig us out of the economic mess - AND get through the war. Then those benefits bore fruit. All the GIs came back and got benefits and a helping hand and built families and neighborhoods and new lives - and then aged and began dying off. Meantime, their kids grew up wondering what all the fuss was about and would look around and say - "problems? WHAT problems?" And there would begin the drumbeat along the lines of "we don't NEED any new laws to fix this problem or prevent the problem from returning and blah-blah-blah..." and "oh, that's old news" or "but it's all okay now, problem solved, we can move on to something else now." Which turns into - "let's all deregulate! Guvmnt BAAAAAD! Git the gummnt off yer back!" And one by one the regulations and restrictions and infrastructure are all slowly whittled away - until the protections are gone, and the problems that begat the Great Depression start cranking back up again. Only rougher and costlier this time.

Kinda like bugs. They find a way into your house and start spreading. You have to take action to get rid of them - and preferably KEEP them from coming back in. You can't just assume the problem's licked and that's that, party on, we don't need that action to keep the bugs out anymore. Bug problem? WHAT bug problem? Oh, that's solved! But when you let up, or give up, or get lazy, or distracted, or move on to something else, just watch. Soon you'll have a bug infestation again - maybe worse than the earlier one.

I read a post earlier, quoting a Republican source, that used "Keynesian" in scare quotes as a snarl word. Keynes ideas work, always have, but teh right is so devoted to trickle-down and the plotocracy that they can't even leave reality alone.

who created the crash are beholden to create the next 80 year crash.