Washington is masking the reality of a crumbling economy and neoconservative war drums with UFC spectacles, direct-to-phone propaganda, and the ultimate vanity play: putting a politician’s signature on your devalued fiat currency. The legendary French queen Marie Antoinette never actually told the starving peasants to eat cake, but the modern-day ruling class in Washington is …Washington is masking the reality of a crumbling economy and neoconservative war drums with UFC spectacles, direct-to-phone propaganda, and the ultimate vanity play: putting a politician’s signature on your devalued fiat currency. The legendary French queen Marie Antoinette never actually told the starving peasants to eat cake, but the modern-day ruling class in Washington is …