[sheana]

I think our government system is beyond redemption. Regardless of who is in which office. There is no fixing it. All they can do is maybe....maybe, slow the slide. There are just not enough people who have the perseverance and will to fix it. It would be a massive fight and most of America would howl about the way it would have to be done, including Conservatives.

[grania]

I'm wondering if slowing down the slide is a good thing. Take as an example Saudi Arabia. They should've been unfriended after 911. There would've been economic pain then, but the nation was together in outrage, so it would've been manageable. Now, we have to unfriend them unless we're okay with giving up any pretense of being the nation we used to strive to be. Except at this point, the Sauds have much more economic power and connections to cause the US great harm. It might be more than the US economically or politically can absorb.

What's my point? The longer something inevitable is put off, the worse the results might be. In another 20 years, who's going to have the experience, knowledge, and skills to get the nation through the crash and burn which just might be inevitable?