In some ways I feel better about the political situation, because we are so well and truly screwed that it doesn't matter what this nation of morons does in the voting booth. We have a date with Reality, and "I'm washing my hair" won't work as an excuse any longer.
Still, I continue to see all these articles from the ever-skittish punditry cautioning Republican candidates about what the latest polls show being "unpopular" cuts or "popular" programs. Shows just how much of a gulf there is between them and Reality. What people "like" doesn't amount to a hill of beans now. Social Security can be the "third rail of politics" all it wants, doesn't matter. The jig is up. All that remains is our Greece scenario, when that cold splash of reality gets the looters up and agitated, hurling firebombs in the streets.
The response to that could be a profound opportunity. All the drains and burdens on our civilization are about to proudly self-identify as such.