>>60753582People do understand, though. Only the bootlickers of whoever happens to be in the White House insist that there's been no recession. Living standards drops and layoffs are well known.
What they're saying isn't that we need a recession, it's that we need a CRASH. That is, a liquidity crunch that screws asset prices and anyone who's overleveraged, because the source of all of this is the overabundance and overconcentration of capital. This whole charade is built on the lie that the economy is good for everything that's nominally been spoken for, and you need an event that cuts to the heart and exposes that it isn't. Then you can start making choices about who deserves to be made whole. (Hint: not the people who got us into this mess.) The goal of these assholes is to normalize and cement the notion that everyone is levered ad infinitum so that we just have to do what they say. But to get there, they had to bet the houae themselves, quietly. Force open the books, see who owes and owns who.