This isn't directed exclusively at you, familyop, but I'm really growing weary of all the prognostications of collapse over this scandal or that one. Americans aren't going to do much of anything about any of this.
Despite these being truly grievous and disconcerting real life events, most Americans see this stuff as memes or reality theater. We've become so disconnected as a species that the political ruling classes know they can rule how they please with little more than some loud barking from those who are concerned but have little power to do anything about it.
I agree with your perceptions about a lack of verbal and written reactions from voters to scandals but was not talking about “collapse over this scandal.” I’m referring to the balance of payments deficits in trade, the mounting piles debt and societal consequences of policies pushing those trends.
* Our President’s Administration is trying to correct some serious and possibly terminal economic and defense problems.
* Our President’s Administration needs good Supreme Court justices in order to do the Administration’s work. So does Congress, when we have a conservative enough Congress to follow through on some of the Administration’s policies. Activist judges are trying to stop the President’s orders from being followed and also threaten to stop some needed measures from needed legislation.
* An economy that is deficient on revenues from a large manufacturing base, even with sufficient agricultural and energy production, will not have enough in sustainable revenues to keep big government spending going. That’s why the debts are increasing so much.
* Our Defense needs much more building. The threat of foreign expansionism is vast and real. We need a larger manufacturing base, not more debt.
* The debt collapse will begin with bond yields increasing to a certain limit (re. investors) and bond prices plummeting. Money doesn’t grow on trees.
* A vicious cycle would follow (rapidly increasing interest rates and government layoffs all too late, falling stock markets, unemployment, further decreasing tax revenues,...repeat, repeat,...
Many have said that the debts can go up indefinitely without default or repudiations, but the world economy won’t bend to that wishful thinking, either.
On the “scandal,” there’s no scandal. Kavanaugh is innocent. Most people haven’t done so well with feminists and associated weirdos running the country and are fed up with it. And there’s more ingenuity along the bottom of society than effete, established folks realize. Handing technical jobs to foreign communist nations for 40 years didn’t end that. It’s genetic.
Confirm Kavanaugh, or see an historic *ss-kicking in the near future. What the establishment is trying to get away with in trying to control our judicial branch, and through it, other branches, is a very serious crime against the people of the United States.
Straighten-up, now.
More of the green areas in the color satellite photos may be visible tomorrow during the day (cloud cover today).
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/CONUS.php?sat=G16#