Since this country was founded in 1776, we have seen political and criminal abuses of our system that have come and gone with some near absolute regularity. If we allow for the first hundred years of our history as being a learning curve, then what should we have learned from the last 100 plus years?
It seems that the scale and breadth of our systemic frauds have escalated at an ever increasing rate, with the current crises surely dwarfing the frauds of the past, and reaching out into global environments. It was a characteristic of our form of Democracy that, like the swing of a pendulum, the most egregious abuses would be addressed, generally after the fact, with the most serious felons getting less severe punishment than that called for by our Laws.
It seems now that this internal natural balancing mechanism is now simply broken, hopefully not so badly that it can't be brought back into operation. If it can't be restored to operation, then our system of Government will implode, caving in on itself in a catastrophic collapse of unimaginable force and destructiveness.
Our system has been previously called into motion by actions so terribly offensive, they could not pass a smell test, and/or threatened the control of the power elite of the masses. It seems that each time we have such a crisis, each crisis much greater than the last, that the system takes longer and longer to respond, with greater and greater risk to all, and not just the man in the street.
I never saw a quick or painless resolution to this morass, but I will now go out on a limb and say that whatever is going to happen will face us within two to four years. I will also say that each of us must fear something much more ominous than a simple financial meltdown. Too many have been hurt too severely by too few for the few to get only a slap on the wrist, or some asinine forfeiture of a non-material portion of their wealth.
If we have any leaders left in our nation, they must address the issues extant now, or lose much more than their power to influence events through a political system that may no longer exist, much less retain any credibility. Every day that goes by, this gets more offensive, and at some point, the pond scum in this equation may create the modern political equivalent of a Black Plague.
Someone must restore the "Political and Moral Gyroscope" to our system, or see it destroyed. While I hoped I would not live to see this, I am now at the point that I think my age and health are no longer material. If we don't find the gyroscope, we deserve to be destroyed. We in this country are losing, have lost, or never had our moral compass, and we now belittle the very values that this country was built on.
I see no middle ground on this, and it is the nature of non-governmental responses to serious wrongs to be highly extreme. Those responsible for these moral vicissitudes must ultimately answer to God, and failing that, the more terrible justice of the Mob.
Nothing short of a massive eruption of Mt. Rainier will give any pass to the amoral scum sociopaths in this country.
The leaders in this country in all sectors need to wake up and smell what they are shoveling. Their wealth and power alone will not save them. Everyone must make their leaders accountable, now, not later. Once this monster raises its head, it will be too late to fix this mess until the monster is satiated.