Really? I get a check every month for disabilities incurred in the service of this country and I have never, in my memory, voted for a Democrat.
I didn't say everyone - but vast majority. The present US government/financial system is a doomsday machine of massive debt, printed money from the Federal Reserve, manipulated interest rates and stealing from the middle class through inflation and taxes - to fund every progressive social-engineering and political scheme, the political class and its cronies. Behind everyone receiving a government check is a progressive bureaucrat pushing to grow this vote-farming plantation. Convincing either of these groups that the system isn't sustainable is impossible.
As such, I simply don't see the potential for steady but sensible reform. Rather, the momentum of present forces will take it to "crash and burn" - and then some. Think Argentina in the past, or Greece now. What happens after that is anyone's guess.