Counting on it! (Although I do not look forward to it)
Been happening since FDR, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
The USA is akin to a helium party balloon slowing down, losing altitude and failing.Slowly but imperceptibly the balloon begins losing gas and starts to drop from ceiling to floor. One day you look behind the sofa and there is a little wrinkled bag behind it.
Slowly but without doubt, the USA is going to be a wrinkled empty party balloon collecting dust behind the sofa.