At every step of this increasingly demented reality Ive thought, this is it, this has gone too far, surely nobody will accept this and most Americans shrugged. I hold no hope that anything can motivate the general public to pay attention.
Meanwhile property prices and 401ks are up, old people (the largest cohort of voters) really just don't care.
I wish people had more empathy for others, but they don't. They mostly only care about taxes and their personal wealth.
This level of personal greed-individualism is partly what makes America great in the good times, but awful when things get bad.
I mean, a trade war absolutely will.
> Meanwhile property prices and 401ks are up
The S&P500 is down YTD.
That said, this will probably all take a while to sink in.
https://www.ncoa.org/article/get-the-facts-on-economic-secur...
As militant actions in Greece, France, and places across the globe attest, voting is not nor should be the only sphere of political engagement.
I don't think the collapse is inevitable. I lean towards doomerism but I know I can't predict what's going to happen next week, let alone next decade.