> The nation as a whole and in many cases individually is functionally bankrupt. <
You are correct that a reset is needed. But except for Rand Paul, no important politician cares. Heck, when Trump was president he did not veto a single major spending bill. Not even one.
So when it comes to deficit spending, it won’t matter much who wins in November. Eventually there will be a reset. But it will not be by choice. It will be forced upon us. And it will be very ugly.
D or R, a pox on both their houses (so to speak).
One notes that Trump, in his first administration, was poorly guided by RINOs (Barr and Pompeo, among them) who since have revealed themselves, and of course attacked by the Russiagate-Clinton-Vindman game and two impeachment trials.
One hopes he at least, should he be candidate and win, will have learned that lesson.
But there is zero doubt to my view that an unavoidable reckoning looms on the horizon.
Washington's farewell address from 1796 was prescient. Parties serve themselves first, and a nation secondarily.