Antony Jay wrote of Diocletian: "He had seen, nearly 1,700 years ago, the answer to the problem of the huge, overgrown, overstaffed, extravagant, inefficient corporation steadily losing its share of the market: Move all the vital decision-making people and functions to another place, and let the old one cave in. If there is a promising, strong, self-contained subsidiary company to move to, the essentials can survive the disaster."
I believe that something similar may eventually happen here -- a collapse we cannot prevent but might survive. Trouble is, there aren't any promising places to go.
Yeah, I share your doom and gloom vision. The people who should have figured it all out by now still cling to misbegotten notions, and the people who want it to cave have the gas pedal. I support Palin for the same reason that McCain did, she might be the serendipitous leader who will save us from our own good intentions. I don’t KNOW that she will, I just KNOW that the others WILL NOT... Yes, I am YELLING!
You are forgetting a partition of the country, either by secession or by the countryside and suburbs letting the overgrown, corrupt cities decay away. This latter seems to be already happening in cities like Detroit and Cleveland.