Fair enough. My feeling is that we have squandered our inheritance and now have nothing of great significance to give to future generations. I’m willing to toss the dice and take risks and go scorched earth. The Second Republic of the United States might even last longer than this first one did. But getting there won’t be pretty.
I agree with you 100% aboutvdebt cancellation - all of it.
Yes personal responsibility is an important virtue. But (in another example of weak government) - allowing private money creation through unsecured debt (credit cards) to displace Congress and the Treasury has ruined millions of lives and created an overclass not suitable for a republic.
Now “conservatives” whose minds are infected by libertarianism will say, “they took the money, now make them suffer, that doesn’t affect ME ME ME” - but of course it does, as our cities crumble, the uninhabitable areas of the country grows, the birth rate of the native population falls and things stop working.
I have seven kids and I don’t drive around with a bumper sticker that says “I’m spending my kid’s inheritance”. Those people, in my mind, betray the nation.