End of an Empire?

I find it ironic that the very people who believe that the "Rapture" is near, when they will go up to heaven and all the rest go you know where, are now about to possibly cause a  man-made apocalypse. Their insane refusal to allow an increase of the U.S. dept ceiling will trigger an  unparalleled financial melt-down both in this country and throughout the world economy. The resulting sudden rise in interest rates will prevent people from purchasing a house or buying a car, but that is hypothetical since they will lose their entire stock and bond portfolios and those about to retire and those already retired will lose all their retirement savings, so no one except the ultra rich will be able to buy anything anyhow. Unemployment will rise its ugly head much higher than today. The US dollar will decrease in value and will no longer be accepted as the currency of commerce worldwide.

Here I had thought that the climate change produced by overpopulation would be the primary cause of a global disaster but it may turn out to be caused by the crazy religious right racist nut jobs calling themselves "conservative Republicans" who somehow took over the US House of Representatives and are marching the rest of us toward suicide. If this happens, the term "conservative" will probably become a dirty word not to be spoken in polite company and the Republican political party itself will vanish into the dustbin of history since it will be blamed for this disaster. The only good thing I can foresee will be that the US  will lose its Empire. It will be forced from lack of funds to bring home its military forces from 135 countries world wide and stop being the world's policeman. On the other hand, the magnitude of the disaster may actually stimulate our military to declare martial law and take over this country. I hope not but they may feel that this would be the only way to prevent the resulting public unrest and to govern this country.

The Republican right wing are out of touch with reality. Many actually deny that anything will happen to this country if we default and that anything bad that may happen will "teach them a lesson". These are the same people who do not believe in Science and deny that man-made climate change is occurring and believe that the world was created six thousands years ago and that evolution is a hoax. But that is not totally true since they do believe in scientific advances in destructive weapons which they can use for wars. They have truly become "domestic terrorists", holding everyone else hostage to advance their ideology.

What can we do besides writing a Blog? We can fight like hell to get these people out of political power in the 2012 elections and we can try to have recall elections at the State level wherever possible as is being done in Wisconsin.  Or President Obama could simply surrender to these people and agree to all the spending cuts they demand,  including cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, to get them to agree to vote to raise the dept ceiling. I fear that this surrender may already be occurring and that in a way makes me more afraid than I even am of our possible economic "Rapture".