Both political parties have spent decades buying votes with bread and circus. They're afraid to admit to the masses that everything they think they're "entitled" to...must now be eliminated or at best drastically reduced. These political incompetents are terrified of the certain backlash they know would come. So, they will let Rome burn to the ground; so long as they retain power over the ruins.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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