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Hopefully some good will come out of it. There's way too much stupid going around out there and the only cure is a good hard reality slap.

I honestly believe America might be too far gone to fix itself though. Instead I fear we'll see a lot of whiners crying about how life isn't fair and how the government should save them, which ultimately will only make the problem worse (and unfortunately, this is a position that has historical precedent with the New Deal).

I honestly think if this one goes sideways to the point where it's a full-blown depression with rampant unemployment, hyperinflation and bread lines, it won't be fixed by government intervention. Once it gets to that point, it'll be all-out revolution with blood in the streets. There won't be a government fix to this one. Government is far too selfish and incapable, and enough of the people ultimately won't believe in it enough to make a New Deal sort of solution work (my disdain for such a "solution" aside. . .)

Let's hope it doesn't get to that point and it instead is just a long-period, shallow recessionary period with a lot of pullbacks and changes rather than a quick, precipitous jerky drop. If it's the latter, I seriously think it's going to go all the way to people sitting on their rooftops with shotguns to fend off looters.