In literature, it is called foreshadowing:
One of the reasons Bernie Sanders is doing well with Millennials is because he’s promising free college for everyone.
In an ultimate twist of irony, his wife Jane Sanders was president of Burlington College in Vermont and racked up such large debts for the small school that she led it to ruin…
“Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O’Meara Sanders, the college’s former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.”
There are two funny things. First, no Sanders supporter will think that if he employed the exact same strategy as President, he might do the exact same thing to the US. It is reality, right in front of them, yet they will still think it impossible. Whether they are the President of a college, the President of the United States, or just grassroots rabbits, r-strategists cannot wrap their brain around the idea that resources might be limited, or that free consumption of whatever is available might have consequences some day down the road. Nor can they realize after the fact that it was their overconsumption of resources that destroyed some entity they had control of. They literally do not have the brain circuitry, in the amygdala. The inevitable result is destruction.
The other funny thing? Comparing the debt level of the United States to the debt level of that college. The US’s survival is being supported by the massive force of being a Superpower. One day, when that force wanes, the collapse will be nuclear compared to all these pikers. And it will take the entire world with it.
Consider this. US GDP is considered about 25% of the world GDP.* When the US economy collapses, how could it do other than take the rest of the world with it? Consider that the US exports massive amounts of food, but if the farmers are unable to do so because, A they can’t grow it due to personal constraints, B the shipping companies cease to operate, C next in the supply chain down. Where will the food come from.
We saw the price of corn go up(and animals fed corn) and felt increased prices. All because corn shortages as it was converted into ethanol for fuel. North Africa got the Arab spring. China is able to export much and keep its economy going because the US imports from it. What happens when we can’t?
And the US’s ability to deficit spend may not come to an end just because of a loss of super power status. It could be disease (Anonymous Conservative’s favorite idea), it could be something else.
* I have issues with how and what GDP measures, but it is a rough proxy and shows my point.
The religion of socialism gets hardwired after a while. If one is exposed to it in college at around 18-24. By 30 it is hardwired.