[esopman]

Such a 'wake-up call from Hell' would be a mercy, a severe mercy. Our republic is a sleepy, drunken giant, stumbling towards the cattle cars, applauding the uniforms and the whips...

[Noumenon]

Such a 'wake-up call from Hell' would be a mercy, a severe mercy.

Yes, it would. Better now than later - when it's far too late. If history teaches us anything at all, it is that civilizations might vary according to their achievements, but all have their rise, their zenith and their nadir. We've got no special dispensation from the consequences of some very bad ideas...