Congress

over the asylum, so rational discussion and measured decision-making to SAVE THE VERY PLANET WE DEPEND ON will not happen, not without some sort of soul-shaking disaster that wakes everyone, and I mean everyone, up. That's not going to happen. We're going to die like the slowly boiled frogs in the pot because humans, like every organism that must grow up on a planet where competition for food, sex, and other necessities is the defining force, can only cooperate in small groups. Other groups are "the other" and are not to be attended to at all -- they should just go somewhere and die.

We may, as a species, die back to a bottleneck of a few million or so, and the cycle of becoming civilized again may possibly go forward. But that's the most we can expect.