The only real issue is these assholes are taking me down with them.

Maybe that's what the people want?

Maybe they don't like the fact that there's people out there making 500 grand a year? At least not while they're struggling to make ends meet on 50 grand a year.

Now your leaders are supposed to be wise enough to not take down the 500 grand a year guys. But what if they aren't?

And someone with a mere 10m in the bank makes more than 500 grand just from their wealth appreciating.

Yet people seem to have far less concern about people with such relatively low wealth.

I'm WAY closer to the 50k group than the 500k group. I just want a leader who has some empathy.

> It's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame.

We're never out of time but the problem is time? There is absolutely a point of no return.

Sorry, I should have said:

The problem is the time frame of the fix

If the US ends up a smoking ruin it can still be fixed, it'll just take longer.

I mean, eventually we also hope some other places develop something like a functioning democracy, or whatever is better in the future, and we hope it will be a matter of time until they at some point do.

The problem with the US is though, that they have the most powerful military on the planet, and the US ending up in smoking ruins probably means lots of other places going down with it, when the US looks outside for reasons of its failure. It is quite dangerous.