Americans are not known for heeding warnings.
Americans are very good at overcoming a bad situation once the bad situation has visited its cruel wrath on America, AND in a manner that is convincing to most Americans that the situation truly is bad.
Since the Socialist (FDR called it “Liberal”) FDR Era began 80 years ago, American leaders in all fields have clung to the “primed pump,” or “Keyensian Economic Philosophy (KEP)” which states in more elegant economic jargon than this simplified version: “ all ya gotta is keep throwing money at the problem until it goes away!” [Works well in divorce cases, but not in Government.]
After the FHA went bankrupt in 9-2008, nobody blamed the FHA, it was merely a lack of money.
Since then KEP has been used but evidence is lacking that KEP worked from 2008 to now.
IOW, Keyensian Economics was tested, and failed.
We are in a bad situation, but our leaders are not convinced that it is so, because they refuse to believe the results of the above mentioned test.
Thus, the situation will get a lot worse, or we will change leaders.
I suspect that the former will occur before the latter.
This is a money war against the people of the United States.
Protesting the bad and the incompetent used to mean something. Boycotting the purveyors of the bad or incompetent use to mean something.
Perhaps much more massive versions of both might wrestle something out of nothing. Then there is the trusty tax revolt.
We the People aren’t doing much yet, but for polling that we’re sort of mad.
This is our most regrettable trait; we have the bad habit of waiting until AFTER a disaster to start making positive changes.