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[grasswire]

"God knows what the Europeans will make of the helter-skelter scene playing out here in the States. Perhaps some species of schadenfreude tinged with regret for the missing stream of tourists. My own guess is that there may not even be a president of the United States after Mr. Obama. Rather, events will get so gnarly and disordered so fast that somebody like General Patraeus will have to step in for a while and keep the reincarnation of the Ku Klux Klan from trying to murder every non-Cracker from sea to shining sea. Of course, once that happens, we probably don't go back. It's not Imperial Rome (release 2.0) after that, either, because even the mighty U.S. military will be too strapped for a means of support to continue operating. Instead, it's the devolution of the United States into functionally autonomous regions and states -- and even that scale of governance may be too great for the stringent economic realities of the years ahead."