Bluto wrote..

On politics, I think the conservatives/Republicans are also going to wipe out the dems in local elections. The former really haven't paid attention, unless they had kids in the school system, to those elections, but will now especially with CRT, wokeism, trans-story hour, etc... This will shift things hard right, and with a Supreme Court that is VERY pro-states rights, this will make "where you live" more important than ever. Maybe some of these states will even start going after the health care monopolies by passing and enforcing legislation?

And yet nothing will change, at least not in the extremely rapid timeframe (weeks/months) that's necessary to stave off a financial fiasco. The burden will still ultimately fall upon the few of us in this country who actually grow anything and know how to fix shit. All the while, the bleating and moaning of the mob will reach a crescendo, never once evaluating themselves to see what each of them could've done differently.