Reply #2: Nice piece. What confounds me is this:

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Are those who would turn their backs on the concept of a 'United States', that covet truly unnecessary wealth, who would not blink as the country was bankrupted...are these people so blind that they don't realize that they, too, will be relegated to the dustbin in the end?
Do they think that they'll stuff a last suitcase with cash as the final whistle blows and run to Brazil. To start over?
Chances are that there won't be anywhere to run.
What the military industrial complex hasn't fouled and broken will stand as a reminder of what a grand experiment was the human race.
A dystopia. Welcome to it.