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America's economy has become a stripped down motorbike, every time the Republicans have gotten in they have taken out the safety features in order to try and make it run faster, until finally you have reached a point where the economy has no breaks, the steering is wonky, and America, which is supposed to be riding this thing, isn't wearing a helmet.
It is going to end in a mangled and horrible mess that may mean America as a whole either coming out crippled, or dead.
The Great Depression was bad, but America's government had a certain amount of money with which it could deal with it. That money has been spent, and America is currently reaching a level of debt where it won't be able to pay it back.
For what happens when countries go bankrupt, look at revolutionary France and the fall of the Soviet Union. Countries simply cease to exist in their current state when they go broke.
Whoever wins these elections will either go down as one of the worst presidents America has ever had, or one of the very best.
It will either be Hoover, or FDR in November.
