I appreciate your observations, particularly regarding Catherine Austin Fitts, etc. I respect her intelligence and experience, but have a hard time trusting her views.

It is just an intuition of mine that I cant quite put my finger on - that she is right in some ways that fit her world view, but that she doesnt quite "get" the whole picture, or something like that. Just that something seems off, incomplete, hard for me to verbalize.

Maybe I just hope for a happy ending somehow - the third one - better than any of us deserve. Improbable, probably, but we can dream.