Take a look throughout history. Think the people currently inhabiting Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, London and now the USA (especially California) are the same ones who had built those former empires? Or are they the descendants of the ever increasing dependent classes?
Socialism always fails, right? So what's the easiest way of hitting the reset point in the USA? By accelerating the implementation of socialism. Think about it this way: imagine a bully group which has you outnumbered, yet they have a fatal weakness for a narcotic drug. Do you confront them head-on in a blaze of glory, or due you cultivate their addiction until they die?
The system is very, very close to dying. If you don't understand this, then you won't be prepared. Watch California - even if they get bailed out, it will only be with printed money, not real wealth. They are a proxy for the rest of the country.
This sucker's going down; my advice is to watch & wait. Protect yourself and be prepared to help when the country reaches its death climax.
Most likely the scenario we face and good advice. But, it doesn't have to be this way if we could but find the little fortitude needed to exercise the final fail safe solution to preventing lasting tyranny built into the constitution by the founders (Well second to the last, next to the second amendment that is).
This being for the states call a constitutional convention for repelling the 16th amendment. This is the source of power whereby the leviathan can wield it unholy wrath upon a common person enforcing them to give a third portion of their labored existence to feed its hunger for power.
Pull this one bloodless coup and the beast will wilt like the weed it is. However, I doubt American couch potatoes care to be bothered with such nonsense. Hey, even Glen Beck thinks its much to dangerous to attempt...