Welcome to the United States of Dystopia!
This reminds me of a few things …
First, a metaphor from Shakespearean days, at the Bard's theater, where the nobles sat safely above the pit, watching both the play and the rabble below in the pit, who whooped and hollered at the actors, and occasionally threw rotten vegetables onto the state, while brawling with one another in the pit.
It reminds me of the days before the French Revolution, where the divide between the haves and the have-nots was as great as it is here today, and the attitudes of both sides are similar.
But more than anything, it reminds me of the WWE, where the rabble surrounding the ring behave much as the wrestlers in the square circle … booing the good guy and cheering the baddie. Where winning mostly involves an illegal hold or substance out of the sight of the referee, and the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Where civility is non-existent and morality is focused on 'winning' at all costs.
We are at a point in our culture where a bald-faced lie on the floor of the U.S. Senate goes unchallenged under the auspices of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
We are at a point where the President can slur rivals (or anyone who disagrees with him) on Twitter and destroy reputations or re-e******n chances.
We are at a point where no matter what the President says or does, the members of his cult blindly follow and accept those actions and words as gospel.
We are at a point where the actions of the government are so melded with the actions benefitting the holder of the presidency that the two are indistinguishable.
We are at a point where the president can spend $100,000,000 of taxpayer dollars so that he can golf one-third of the time that he has been in office and nobody says a word.
We are at a point akin to N**i Germany in the mid-1930's immediately prior to Hitler's rise to power. Granted, the economic situation is better, but the underlying sentiments of grievance and loss of power because of 'others' is almost identical.
This is the state that we find ourselves today and these are but a few of the problems that we face.
We have a morality problem, in that what we are seeing in our society is a lack of it. Some claim to be "devout Christians" yet still support a man in the presidency that has broken most of the Commandments that they cling to as a basis for their own morality. Those two situations cannot exist simultaneously.
We treat each other with a grossness and lack of civility that I don't remember being this bad in my almost eighty years of memory. It seems that we have receded from a civilized society to one of pseudo-anarchy where it's every 'man' for themselves and the rules are only enforced when the f**grance of the offense cannot be ignored. "Might makes right, and justice is the interest of the stronger" [paraphrased from Plato's Republic, Chapter 1].
The justice system has two branches … one for the well-to-do and another for the rest of us. A well-publicized case in San Francisco involved F. Lee Bailey, the well-known lawyer, who was accused of drunk driving. He brought in two of his high-priced lawyers from his law firm, made mincemeat of the arresting officer, was acquitted in spite of overwhelming evidence, and avoided felony conviction. That would not have happened to most of us.
The economic system isn't much better. The stock market is OK, but for most of us, our economic situations haven't improved. Automation is taking more and more of our jobs, and retraining a secretary to be a computer technician to maintain a robot probably isn't in the cards. This is going to get exponentially worse.
Finding a place to work where the employer values their employees and treats them well is rare these days, and most of the jobs are where the employee just fills a slot and does rote work is the norm (for low wages, too.)
All in all, we're becoming a dystopian society. There's no denying this. And I'm not sure that recovery will ever be complete, if at all. Trump will probably be reelected … we have to remember that this is a person that will use every trick (legal and illegal) to win the e******n, and we can underestimate him at our peril. After that, it's gonna be a rough patch for the country.

I agree with you on your term of the "scumbag FED".
Why would anyone want to remove the food and energy sector when it's part of our GDP?
My cousin in Denver Colorado is an engineer in the fracking industry and is doing very well.

I do BBQ catering on the side and the cost for high-quality meats is very very reasonable.

I can't emphasize any more than I already have that I can only attest with what I am seeing in the state and what others have told me from other states in various Industries and small businesses.

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Look how many people he has fooled... ?
Imagine when they figure out he’s been working for the CB families, Israel, Queen, Pope and Rothschild all along ?

Is Trump the great Dynamic Shill?
The Great Repackager ?

Or is he really who he says and he’s going to flip on all of them ? Really ?s

Remember, Vegas wouldn’t take my bet that the house would impeach him...
They still wont take my bet that he might get impeached in the senate (4 t*****r Rinos) or Re elected ...

You still have No Plans B or C !

I wasn't referring to you Sici, merely pointing out that that's what the wolf would say as dressed like a sheep.

Nothing wrong with waking people up but those who prefer the blue pill will remain taking the blue pill and there's nothing you can do about it.
I merely plant seeds anymore and leave it to the individual to fertilize that seed into fruition.
The rest of the time I'm just joking around trying to get people to laugh every now and then.....life is too short and even shorter without laughter.