You're assuming that the successors of Bush and Obama won't be as bad or even worse (if that's imaginable...and it is, I think). This era may mark a crucial poi

You're assuming that the successors of Bush and Obama won't be as bad or even worse (if that's imaginable...and it is, I think). This era may mark a crucial point at which the collapse of the U.S. accelerated, I'll grant, though we shouldn't paint too rosy a portrait of their predecessors. They had their part to play as well. Every politician likes to use a crisis, especially a blatant failure of the State, in order to increase its power, extract more money from the population, and so forth.