I can't help but think of many of the stupid anti-semetic and anti-merchant tropes repeating themselves in the rhetoric. The legacy clearly traces to the feudal

I can't help but think of many of the stupid anti-semetic and anti-merchant tropes repeating themselves in the rhetoric. The legacy clearly traces to the feudal system in terms of who the despised scapegoats are - those who weren't a part of "the system" and "the way things are". There is tbe same dumb "blame the lender (who pretty much can't say no) for the government's inexhaustible appetite for war and not the inbred spoiled psychopaths in charge". On a more generic note there are the same fallacies about value prevailing, that a fixed reference point will actually remain fixed (gold), and that value is universal (nothing is).