My money says that sometime in the next 20 years, voters ask themselves "If I am paying in taxes as much as I think reasonable, and a huge chunk of that is goin

My money says that sometime in the next 20 years, voters ask themselves "If I am paying in taxes as much as I think reasonable, and a huge chunk of that is going for promises made by people long out of office, I am being taxed, but where is my representation? Who can I elect, what can I do as a voter to ensure that funds go towards things I feel are in the best interests of society" Not sure this is a liberal/conservative thing, although I'm sure it will be framed as such. At the end of the day, it is possible that the overall debt situation forces voters to either walk away from the debt -- or walk away from representative democracy. The two may not work together. Of course, like everyone else I'm wrong about most every sort of prediction, but I note that Jefferson, observing revolutionary France, was quite concerned that inter-generational debt was quite capable of strangling any sort of revolutionary activity or peaceful refactoring of the way government works. I doubt his observations are any less accurate now than when he made them.