They will not learn till 1) the pain on the people becomes so severe they fear a revolt and 2) this country goes literally bankrupt Zimbabwe style.
The problem is the senate and the senators. They literally die in office and/or are too hard to dump. You need to repeal the 17th amendment I think.
We are well on our way to the “sudden stop”. That is an actual economics term so look it up. When the stop occurs, I trust everyone has prep’ed because that is when the guns will come out and the thin veneer of society will melt away.