My parents were kids during the depression. They grew up seeing true desperate times - you know - not like not having fresh batteries for your nintendo but more like not having a GD thing to eat and a house with a dirt floor.
It's been long enough now that most who lived through those times are gone now - or their minds are so gone they don't remember. So, effectively, we do not have a genetic memory as Americans what it was like to be poor. I have come close a couple of times. Living in my van. My liquid assets loose change in my pocket.
Most people haven't experienced it and since the Free Shyt Party has learned how to pander for votes few will....for just a little longer. I do believe that this is all going to come tumbling down - even more strongly than before the election. I think that our collective fates are now sealed. The comments I see from the left suggest exactly the opposite. Without a shred of objective evidence to substantiate their position they feeeeeeeel that everything is going to be ham~n~jam.
I've seen others try to gently pry the tiniest bit of rational thought out of them to share their secret to success but I have yet to see a single one offer anything up. In other words they hold their view as an article of faith. Faith in the ØbaMessiah I guess.
Øbongo never did more than hint at what he was apt to try to get the country going again (that is, of course because his only plan is to continue to bleed us), but these folks aren't showing any signs of fear - yet. And I doubt that they will, even as energy prices and food prices skyrocket this winter, along with spot shortages of both food and fuel across the country.
I hold that they won't start to panic until the checks stop coming, or the banks shutter their doors.