Seriously, I joke about wanting to move to France whenever this generation gets into power, etc., but with every passing day it's less of a joke. I truly think this country is going to go to hell in the mother of all handbaskets whenever these guys get their hands on the steering wheel. And this is completely non-partisan pessimism, people! As far as I can tell regardless of political leanings they're all pretty much Entitlement Incarnate. We're pretty much fucked either way. On the one hand if they continue looking out for #1 with no thought to any consequences or responsibilities or conscience (oh wait a minute maybe that's already happened... sorry couldn't resist :) then the country will be OK in general but we'll be even more of a global bully and there will be about 500 people who have all the money, all the jobs, and all of the health care.
On the other hand if their wonderfully enduring apathy wins out, then they'll all lose whatever jobs they get upon exiting college, and once the moderately responsible generations die out (which will be quick because it's a safe bet that no improvements will have been made on the elderly health care issue by then - they'll probably put us all on ice floes to drift away and die... oh except that thanks to global warming there won't be any more of those), they'll become someone's colony and then some other nation can worry about how to light a fire under their asses. Eventually they'll just fence off the former USofA as some kind of lost world full of blissfully unaware nomads walking around wearing threadbare Patagonia polyfleece wondering whose turn it is to get food that day and how to get out of it next time it's theirs.
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