One part of this that resonates with me is the mobs fighting each other in the streets. I think after Occupy showed that average people can get organized, however poorly, and make the elites really uncomfortable when their financial crimes are so great and so bold as they were in 2008 - 2010. I think the elites saw the potential for things getting too hot if that ever happened a second time, and they knew that they can never let the filthy average westerner get that close to them ever again.

Every emergent movement since then has been co-opted by media and corporations (the machinations of billionaires) and their momentum redirected against the fellow citizen to be divisive instead of unifying. This ensures that whatever massive grift they pull off against the working and middle classes using their goons in power (Obama and Harper then, now Biden, Trudeau), that ordinary people will have plenty of existing rifts in society and existing social strife will be where that anger and violence will be directed.