Hysteria seems to be “carrying the day” as the last Republican debate of the year took place tonight in the USA. We were treated ad nauseum to the worst kind of jingoistic Islamophobia and militaristic calls for action against Syria, Iran, ISIS/ISIL and even Russia. Anti-intellectualism and the worst kind of crack pot populism was broadcast directly into the minds of frustrated and stressed out Americans by CNN. It was pathetic. Economics and politics is poor theater. Progressives had better wake up and realize that intellectualism doesn’t have a chance against fear, stress and anger….at least not with the majority. Trump is tapping into the same mentality that Mussolini and Hitler tapped into. It’s a winning formula. The only way to head off an onslaught of such lemming like suicidal idiocy is an economics of jubilee followed by an adequate amount of cold hard cash, paper or digital, in the eager hands of the individual. It’s a race between monetary grace the free gift and a repeat of the worst of the twentieth century.