I’m not giving up on them. I’m just expecting a significant portion of them to die in what’s coming, because that’s what happens, historically speaking, when crises like these reach their tipping points. The avalanche has already started, and it is too late for the pebbles to vote. Some will survive what is coming, and rebuild, and possibly even learn from what mistakes were made. However, before that can happen, the United States will drag a great many of its pall-bearers into its pyre with it, and the only thing that can be done is to salvage as many lives as possible–but the collapse is now inevitable.
