Well you got 20 more years of experience with politics to know theses things cannot be changed.
You have in that time witnessed our best efforts to fix these problems failed to produce anything substantial due to these same political despondence. You have seen the results when politicians even come close.
The rest is simply a matter of mathematics.
We are in a corundum that many nations thouout history have long been in, and few if any of them ever survived its almost inevitable outcome.
I guess the problem is not what to do its how to do it. We obviously cannot attack this problem directly. If there is any resolution short of collapse & tyranny it will require a fair bit of deception in-order to avoid the defenses of the entitlement(taker) and political(ruler) class.
Our uniquely american option, the State sovereignty/rights movement, using our States to attack Washington and strip it down, as a means of breaking up this problem into more manageable sizes. Is anther possible vehical from which we might attack this problem perhaps in combination with other efforts.
You are probably right, however being from California, your solution doesn’t give me a great deal of comfort.
This site, DumpDC, is all about secession. He makes some good points. Don't always agree with it, but if you believe that we are nearing a collapse then we certainly need to be talking about this kind of stuff.