Roll the US timeline back to Ovama’s election. A coup was set in motion, and we were to be into the first term of a Hillary presidency, clueless about the coup, at this point.
One need only look at the old Soviet Union :
The people got little to eat except half rotten potatos and some vodka (the opiate of the people that was subsidized by the government). Party members who kowtowed to the ‘State’ got ‘less rotten’ potatoes to eat and more opportunities to obtain black market western goods (the black market was 1/4 of their entire economy).