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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
When it comes to voter turnout IMO it has nothing to do with they "can't be bothered" type thing. It has everything to with it does not really matter due to our 2 party system. When you have to raise a 1/2 a billion to run, is there really a point to go out and vote? - ..or maybe you're right, they can't be bothered.
A catastrophic financial event (that almost happened in 2008) is much worse because the average American lives cheque to cheque PLUS 70 million Americans get federal or State assistance to help them survive. Now imagine this assistance is all gone tomorrow?
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While I am sure there are some people who don't bother to vote because the 2 party system is messed up and they feel it doesn't matter, I think a lot of people just don't care or can't be bothered. I meet people all the time who are clueless of the world around them. They don't follow the news or anything remotely like it and if they do know about world events it is a fucked up skewed view that a co-worker or friend gave them. They are just apathetic to anything that doesn't involve them directly in their day to day lives.
Could the US government not step in during a financial crisis and just guarantee the money? It seems to me if the dollar collapsed they could either just print more or make a statement guaranteeing that they will cover the lost value so that people can still buy the stuff they need. It would run up massive debt, but it could avert a crisis.
To me we are just too big to fail. There are many other countries that rely on us and if we go much of the world goes with us so I think others would step in and help prop us up if needed. It could cause some issues and there could be some problems with unrest. It wouldn't be pretty , but I don't think it would be as ugly as a lot of people might think (meaning civil war and people killing each other for food type of stuff).