It is no conspiracy that corporations want to increase profits and defeat competition.
But this leads to the centralization of power, not fragmentation, right?
Move your power to where it can be very centralized because the society is already Communist.
Devastate the freedom lovers and individualists in the USA, then use your power to invade and conquer the divided peoples who are weakened.
I think they'd prefer to take direct control and they are trying. But Armstrong's model predicts a fracturing. The Constitutionalists are stilll numerous in the USA. It will require war to defeat them. We can hope TPTB might lose but they probably would never accept loss. Limited nuclear war, or polluting the water supply, or what ever it takes. They will choose the least risky choice available.
By fighting back, we are forcing them into a corner. We had better be prepared to win. I see chaos ahead. The elite know the USA is the remaining major hurdle to their global dominance.
They'd prefer a slow burn into centralized collectivism. But Tea Party is about ready to start going radical if they don't get their wishes in 2016 election.
Perhaps the freedom lovers get some victories and the USA fractures because different regions are more collectivist than others.