Tell you what, tho - the Repubs, newly revitalized by a strong infusion of Conservative energy (and bodies), thanks to the Tea Party movement, take both houses big time in November.
But you're right - it's too late.
The general collapse strains the social fabric to the ripping point, engendering a civil war/revolution, one that features large numbers of armed forces on the side of Light (that's us, in case you were wondering).
This government falls, as it never has before in the history of the Republic. Chaos looms.
But this is America. We know nothing else. Democracy and freedom, it seems, really is our birthright.
A reconstituted United States of America begins to emerge from the ashes, a nation saddened, but wiser, because of the experience.
But there is the problem of that crushing debt.
The former government, operating under the fiction it actually represented it's collective constituencies, laid this debt out for their benefit, not hardly ours.
Still, we're an honorable nation of honorable men, and ways are sought to live up to the commitments these selfish men made.
But we're human, too, and these things have their limits. We come to the realization that we cannot meet and honor these commitments, and therefore the vast majority of the debt is repudiated.
Well, since our little social disagreement occurred, things elsewhere, it seems, have gone to the dogs. Everyone has problems - big problems.
What effect does repudiation have on the global scheme of things? It's not good, of course, and lots of nations join us in writing down their debt, as well.
Global trade immediately takes up residence in the toilet, where it will sit for the next 35 - 40 years, anyway.
But for most, global trade is not the most important course on everyone’s plate. Lots of nations turn inward, trying to fix the bogus machinery of state they've been left with as a result of post-war, post-industrial, post-modern rise and influence of Keynesian, socialist and communist economic theory that never should have left the halls of academia.
It will take a long time to fix, and it's almost certain that your kids and grandkids will live their lives under the ancient Chinese curse of “living in interesting times”.
Of course, it's entirely possible that another scenario could emerge in the wake of this impending catastrophe, but it's late, and I really have no desire to explore those.
CA....
Thanks for that nightmare vision I’m taking to sleep with me now.
Sigh.
I think you are very close to it. I have a feeling it won’t be that easy. lol.