[livius]

Exactly. It’s not an accident.

[qwertypie]

America’s decline was not instituted from the top. All of my life, with only several instances of sanity, rank and file Americans went to the polls to vote in politicians promising the nanny state. Nobody held a gun to their heads or tricked them.

[mojito]

It's not an accident at all. What better why to cripple the super power that 0 and his minions despise than to burden it with debts that make super power status unaffordable and untenable?

This was the plan all along, as Charles Krauthammer underscored in a speech not too long ago.