[RobRoy]

I don’t want them to shut it down. I want it to collapse of its own weight, and that day is rapidly approaching. I would not be surprised if it happens this year. This summer, actually.

[OldDeckHand]

"I want it to collapse of its own weight, and that day is rapidly approaching."

Can you think of a time in the history of mankind when a government collapsed in financial ruin to then be replaced by a more classically liberal government?

When governments collapse because they can no longer pay their bills, or because inflation spirals out of control, what happens next is not more libertarian. Quit the opposite, in fact. The central government becomes stronger - think Germany 1933 or even the US circa 1929. FDR didn't stay in power for 3-terms preaching limited federal government, did he?

There's absolutely no reason to believe something different would happen here, if we go down that path.

[Theophilus]

I want it to collapse of its own weight

O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines