> But hardship will teach some much needed lessons. To whom is this lesson being taught? The general public or the leadership that is increasingly untethered f

> But hardship will teach some much needed lessons. To whom is this lesson being taught? The general public or the leadership that is increasingly untethered from the general public's oversight? Seems to me that the lessons of the war on Iraq was to subsidize regional dictatorships even further to fend off Iran and Syria. The Great Recession of 2008 caused suffering too. The lesson for that appeared to be to cut interest rates to 0% for corporations for 14 years while retail consumers paid 'market rates'. And now they're about to pay higher prices due to leadership committed to speedrunning the 1920s.