Its all done in support of the status quo and the massive, progressive, leftist nanny-state.
The battle lines, in my view, are clear.
If you are conservative and for limited government - you either support a return to free-market currencies and the elimination of the Federal Reserve, or you prepare your mind to be completely dominated by statists, the left, and their various social-engineering programs.
If the fed reverses course and begins a realistic pricing of interest rates, the federal budget would have such a high interest burden the entire economy would collapse IMO. When the government decided to make the fed responsible for our economic stability some time ago, they signed our death warrant.