How it is that time after time capitalism totally fails us. We become desperate to find ways to prop it up. We fix the car with binder twine. We fall upon our swords of theory. We reinforce conformity and never structure.

We tweak it here and there. We shower a flood of money on institutions whose greed and stranglehold on politics is toxic, and whose executives enrich themselves at the public trough on a pig farm. That sentence alone will prevent this from being published. But it’s not uncivil because it’s true.

The failures of capitalism come home to roost repeatedly. History mocks us for a fool. No one wants to stare reality in the face because to do so would be to rip away the secrets and employ transparency.

Capitalism cannot survive transparency.

The typical American says: it’s too complicated to understand so allow me just to live my life, and what comes at me, comes at me. What comes at you is the collapse of a system that saves the wealthy from a disaster the middle-class is required to pay for and pay for. The people who benefit have bled us dry.

What comes at you is the systemic fiasco of our own dereliction to insist on the oversight of the fundamental mechanisms of framework and modus operandi ostensibly including the lower class, the real workers of the economy, to represent an apparatus that does not include an army of bank lobbyists with vested interests in an ideology that keeps the majority in their assigned place.

It is time to go for the jugular.