Maybe. Part of my concern is that America's superiority complex will prevent those at the top from doing anything about it; just continuing to push ahead as nor

Maybe. Part of my concern is that America's superiority complex will prevent those at the top from doing anything about it; just continuing to push ahead as normal with the presumption that we'll win. However, I have some friends who work in the government, and conversations with them have given me a small source of hope: the government may feel like it mostly consists of the clowns we see in the news every day, but the reality is that it's made up of a massive collection of American citizens, many of whom are extremely competent at their jobs and whose priorities are simply to keep things working well for everyone. They do incredibly thorough planning for contingencies that allow us to do things like weather natural disasters (that's the department one of my friends works in), etc. So much complexity and knowhow and effort goes into simply keeping this whole thing moving at all, and part of me hopes that there are people somewhere in there who are are thinking through all this stuff, who know what they're doing, and who have a plan.