This fits my impression quite well. So much of our lives are dictated by our particular psychological profile and the level of stress in the moment and also long term. The financial elite are afflicted with both an authoritarian, austere psychological profile and high levels of stress plus most of them also operate under the influence of false economic orthodoxies. Together these factors probably means that even though there may be a relative few individuals who are consciously aware of matters and working only for their individual interests, there probably isn’t some wide spread cabal consciously manipulating things behind the scene. This doesn’t mean that the result is very much as if there were a wide spread cabal, in fact, as changing one’s mind is both the easiest and the most difficult thing to do, the combined general psychological profile/zeitgeist/paradigm/false orthodoxies in effect are probably even more of a hindrance to change than if the general cabal was a confirmed actuality.

IMO Trump is undoubtedly still under the influence of false conservative economic orthodoxy, although he is aware of MMT which shows that he is at least aware of that element of an abundant mindest of economic and money theory. Hilary as we know is not going to do anything of progressive consequence on money reform until she jettisons her Goldman Sachs et all backers. So we’re probably going to have to integrate the various strands of economic and monetary reform in as intelligent and marketable fashion as possible.

Understanding what an actual integration is, is key because an actual integration requires focused understanding of all relevant factors, the effects of an actual integration are true progress and a deep enough integration is an actual paradigm change.