[Nosterrex]

I have to agree with you. When politicians discovered that the American people will elect the politician that promises to give them the most goods and services for free, they started giving the people what they wanted, namely, something for nothing. Today, the American electorate has decided to pass the bill on to future generations. The past and current generations still want something for nothing, and they do not care enough about what happens to American AFTER they die to change. Nothing is going to substantially change until America becomes another Greece, and the bills come due.

[ScottinVA]

Nothing is going to substantially change until America becomes another Greece, and the bills come due.

At which point, the reflexive blaming of Bush will commence.

[semantic]

I would suggest you look a little deeper. It's not like politicians were surprised; they KNEW. However, the entire game was predicated on inflating the number of unqualified voters. Hence, the various voting enfranchisement acts dating back to the Civil war and continuing apace to this very day.

Policitians and the power elite who back them generally possess above avg intelligence. It's not mystery to them that democracies have repeatedly failed throughout history. So the challenge was to convert the republic into a democracy. Once that was achieved, anything is literally possible, as we witness on a daily basis.

The only way out is a reset. It's coming sooner or later (what, you thought the USA would live forever?); when it does, a couple of hundred years of tradition are going to go medieval on usurpers.