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David Brin • Author, Futurist, Public Speaker Nick Hanauer’s 2014 appeal to his fellow billionaires to consider the one trait that all schools of psychology call central to sanity – satiability. Hanauer tells other members of the rising plutocrat caste that sending wealth disparities skyrocketing – now past French Revolution levels – will have one inevitable outcome… pitchforks and torches. Till now, I thought there must be elements of the top most castes who are having buyers' remorse, when they realize that Trump's appointments have just one patterned purpose -- to utterly demolish the US government as a functioning concern. A demolition ultimately serving the long stated aims of one person above all others on Earth: Vladimir Putin. Who openly and repeatedly proclaimed a passionate goal of revenge for the toppling of his beloved USSR. Are there aristocrats who realize that their victory now threatens the very life of the nation where they keep their stuff... the goose that laid their golden eggs? Of course our current crisis distills as a worldwide attempted putsch against the Enlightenment Experiment (EE) by a combine of powers, ostensibly disparate but united in the goal of restoring 6000 years of rule-by-inheritance brats