The fact is this country has been living on the equivalent of a national home loan, overdrawn credit cards and kited checks since Reagan. The fact we have a bankruptcy skating con artist in charge is an effect, not a cause.

The reality is that capitalism couldn't function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. Public debt backs private wealth.

The end state will be when no more can be issued and it starts to come crashing back down. Then those with the largest piles of government bonds will be trading them for any remaining public assets and privatize the rest of the country. Predatory lending/disaster capitalism coming home to roost. The politcal theater is distraction from the underlaying reality and those falling for it, left and right, are part of the problem, not the solution.

Read history and physics, if you want to understand what's going on, not the news.

Watching the news is like trying to learn Japanese from watching Godzilla movies.

That you want progress and you trust the CIA to tell you the Russians are responsible for everything wrong, is asking for a bullet in the back of the head, by those who you thought had your back.