All their politics stems from a profoundly life-negating world view.

They would rather spend money on death. It's in their blood.

.

"The Shock Doctrine" in a handy pocket size for easy home use.

And it's not "satirized for your protection!"

The plan was to cripple the government, force austerity thus cutting the government to nothing but the military.

There will be no discussion on this fact because the media is complaisant in the process.

could have an excuse to attack social policies ?

There might be some deliberate long term strategy on their part.

Mostly I think it's just capitalists asking themselves "How can I get alot of money right now?". Since they own the politicians, too often the answer is they get money by looting the public treasury and running up public debt.

Americans have thought for a long time that we have a pretty high-quality democracy. But it's becoming clear this is just your basic banana republic and those are the rules that apply.