The only problem is these folks are still in control, and us citizens here in the US are not the only ones who see what horrible shape our government is in... The weaker and more ineffectual they show themselves to be the more ripe for attack we become (or perhaps more precisely our allies are).
Screw it. We’re goin down. I’m not a survivalist, I’ll probably die in the first wave. But we are going to crash and crash hard. So, it doesn’t really matter what they do. Will they be able to build a new communist Amerika from the rubble? No. It will be every man for himself. But we’re going down.