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10. Excellent explanation. But the long-term doomsday scenario...

160 million voters aren't doing to descend into something a lot more like third-world existence than the various personalized versions of Ozzie and Harriet most want for themselves and their children.

Disaster that hurts the voting classes enough would force changes. Unfortunately, too many have to feel it personally to wake up. The Great Depression was the kick in the butt to voters that gave us FDR's New Deal, Truman's Fair Deal, LBJ's Great Society and much more.

1929 crash. 1932 Republicans out, FDR in. 1933 the beginning of a very long list of progressive actions to repair and advance.

That conservative-engineered disaster lead to 50 years of liberal progressive dominance. Ozzie and Harriet, including rise of black and other minority group middle classes.

Avoiding a redux is the Republicans' dilemma. They technically have the power to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, eliminate most federal taxes, civil rights and labor laws, roll the clock back to 1920. But HOW to accomplish this while they can without destroying themselves for decades?

And that would include a constitutional amendment to fix a hard-right SCOTUS by instituting term limits. A large majority of voters already believe it is needed, and le deluge hasn't even hit yet.