Ahh, but the elites need the help of regular people to survive the aftermath, and once they return to the surface they’ll find a government that was formed by the people who were left on the surface that sucks a lot less. (We’re super-resilient and most of the ‘civilization ending’ fears actually would result in far more functional human subpopulations)
The Constitution burning to a crisp wouldn’t be a bad thing…It’s a super-old idea made buy guys who thought that black people were only fractions of humans and didn’t think women should have the same rights as men. It’s actually kind of crappy.
I’m all for a big ol’ reset button…though I’d prefer it if we didn’t end up destroying so much genetic diversity…and an asteroid is only a moderate improvement over us in that respect. There are better ways, we’ve had plenty of chats about them here…none of them involve respecting the system we have now.
