@Lavelle and @Darqfybr:
Connected big investment pools seem to be the government favored entities as much as select families. Or, these financial firms are the powers actually in charge:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/11/05/4....History shows us episodes of societal madness - the witch trials of late 1600s America and also in parts of Europe; Germany 1930s-45; Russia 1917-91; Mao's "Cultural Revolution"; Venezuela today, etc. The madness persists until the population recovers its collective sense, or until a war ends it.
You may be interested to investigate Belgian professor Mattias Desmet's discussion of "Mass Formation Psychosis"