What I am about to say will not be very popular, but here goes: Although Rush is looking at the near term effects of Obama’s first term and the probable effects of a second term for him, I think it goes much further than that I believe that most people across the “First world and Second World” want to see it be destroyed and rebuilt into something “better”.
I think we passed the tipping point some years ago, it was probably back in the early days of President Clinton. We as a nation and in many ways the rest of the world are heading for a major fall. Perhaps even the fall of civilization itself. Why? I’m not totally sure but I think it’s because the world has become so complex, yet so in our faces via modern communication media.
We know more about what’s occurring on the other side of the world than we do about what’s occurring on the other side of the neighborhood. This has a way of involving us in an emotional way yet leaves us feeling we can do nothing about what we are hearing/seeing.
People are pretty limited in how much they can do or comprehend even locally and yet they are bombarded daily about happenings across the nation and world. The natural reaction is to back off and close the perceptions of what is being presented to them constantly.
Do this often enough and there develops a desire both internally and in the populace at large for the “problem” to go away. And when you get down to it the “problem” for many if not most people is “modern civilization”.
So without going deeper in psychology and sociology I think that civilization collapse will occur because a large portion if not the current majority of human beings want it to occur if only on a subconscious basis.
And if it does happen it’s not going to be pretty at all. I sometimes think of modern “technological” civilization to be like a spinning top. As long as it’s balanced and going fast enough, (Economy), it is stable. Slow it down or unbalance it and it crashes to the ground and soon stops.
There are a variety of factors and forces. Some people openly call for decivilzing the world by greatly restricting energy use or pushing Hollywood values into the mainstream. Others have a subconscious urge to destroy everything like you implied. A few others have set themselves up to profit off of the collapse.
Although the USA could partially collapse it won't be the end of the world. There will still be the Chicomms waiting to fill the void. It won't be pretty.