Thank you for this cold shower of appalling truth. We are in for a wild ride to oblivion!, and it's entirely our own (or more specifically, our corporate overlords and their truthless Republican servants') fault.

Democracy is the most enlightened political system ever invented, but it has one tragic flaw: it depends on the wisdom and foresight of human beings, and like every other animal, we are entirely self-serving and short-sighted. As Bob Dylan once said, "Most people don't do what they believe in; they just do what's most convenient, and then they repent." Or get violent. This could well be the epitaph of humanity...