Although you have not explicitly said so, I think we both agree that the profligacy of our federal, state and even personal spending is unsustainable and is lurching us at an accelerating pace with Biden in command toward the cliff.
When you put the blame on the Republican Party, I say you were dead on but I would also not excuse Trump although he at least thought he could rev up the economy enough to compensate. My point is not to blame Trump or the party, although the latter is certainly blameworthy, but to try to identify the forces that have got us here.
If you want another metaphor, we are circling the financial drain but there is another element to the situation: our entire epistemology has been perverted by the left. In other words, not only do we spend mindlessly but we also think mindlessly. We have lost the battle for adulthood and the country is descending into childishness.
You have kindly indulged long posts for me during this round so I impose one more whose virtue is it's not nearly so long but it does help explain why we are in this self-imposed firing squad in Georgia on both of the wrong sides of a financial and electoral issue:
They do this because they have no feelings of guilt about stealing the votes of their neighbors.
I fully agree and I would presume to recast your remarks to be that the left has stolen the culture. We are now in a culture in which the ends justify the means, 2+2 equals anything but 4, truth and lies are interchangeable and right and wrong, and therefore guilt, is a matter of perception.
How did we come to this place?
It's quite simple really, the left has co-opted our epistemology. The Frankfurt School is a good place to begin then follow its evil spawn of critical theory, race intersectionality and postmodernism as it leaches out into the whole culture.
Currently, James Lindsay has been advancing the most thorough and rigorous research on this phenomenon which has escaped from our universities as from a Wuhan lab and infected our entire school system, our corporations, our media our churches, all levels of our government's and our law courts.
Once we lost this battle we lost, at least temporarily, the war.
There is no fundamental basis apart from intersectionality to gain a sense of "guilt about stealing the votes of their neighbors." Hence, stealing white votes on behalf of a candidate favored by Blacks is not stealing but redressing "intersectional" wrongs. This is why we are losing the war.
PS. I would add this is why, along with a misplaced sense of abundance built as you say on runaway consumerism, that we can't stop spending.
