The usual excellent column from one who actually learned and understood history as opposed to the millions of stupid citizens failing to bother.  All speaking, thinking, and doing the same things over and over and expecting different results.  The full effect of institutional(Corporate and fundamentalist christian) and billionaire-funded brainwashing turning the governing system into a one party nation devoted to the care and preservation of status quo for the Corporate Oligarchy Casino of Wall Street and the private Federal Reserve Banking System.  2017 returns to the 19th Century rule by previous Billionaire Barons yearly orchestrating financial depressions until, finally, full-scale wreckage in the Great Depression.  Allowing the rise and rule of the previous German Dictator now transferred to this nation.  Good Luck, America!  You reap what you sow!