"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
In the Controls Systems theory world this is known as "positive feedback". Such a system is unstable and will eventually destroy itself. The solution is to add "negative feedback" of sufficient quantity to make the system stable. This is often done with a PID controller.
In the political world this means stopping the ever increasing tax/spend cycle. -- Don't feed trolls--it only makes them grow!
...In the political world this means stopping the ever increasing tax/spend cycle.
And, typically with nations, that expresses itself by "the money going broke" - namely, hyper-inflation... followed by great political upheaval and some form of reconstruction. Needless to say, this doesn't always work out well for those involved. -- “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” A. de Tocqueville
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As I said "will eventually destroy itself". Reality is unforgiving.