Love your post.
So true:
“All the logic in the world won’t change peoples’ minds; only the experience of pain will, as it so often does in our personal lives.”
Thank you. There’s something in human nature that makes us resistant to logic. The only thing that causes us to change our ways is pain and fear, usually in the form of what’s often referred to as “life altering events”.
I’m not a complete doomsayer but IMHO the nation is headed toward an economic calamity and it will cause a great upheavel and social “unrest”. A little restoration of sanity may come out of it when we get proof positive that unsustainable spending has real consequences.