The stakes are high. If the confirmation is not properly completed, we may be heading toward economic and societal collapse very soon. This isn't directed exclusively at you, familyop, but I'm really growing weary of all the prognostications of collapse over this scandal or that one. Americans aren't going to do much of anything about any of this.
Despite these being truly grievous and disconcerting real life events, most Americans see this stuff as memes or reality theater. We've become so disconnected as a species that the political ruling classes know they can rule how they please with little more than some loud barking from those who are concerned but have little power to do anything about it.
I agree with your perceptions about a lack of verbal and written reactions from voters to scandals but was not talking about “collapse over this scandal.” I’m referring to the balance of payments deficits in trade, the mounting piles debt and societal consequences of policies pushing those trends.
* Our President’s Administration is trying to correct some serious and possibly terminal economic and defense problems.
* Our President’s Administration needs good Supreme Court justices in order to do the Administration’s work. So does Congress, when we have a conservative enough Congress to follow through on some of the Administration’s policies. Activist judges are trying to stop the President’s orders from being followed and also threaten to stop some needed measures from needed legislation.
* An economy that is deficient on revenues from a large manufacturing base, even with sufficient agricultural and energy production, will not have enough in sustainable revenues to keep big government spending going. That’s why the debts are increasing so much.
* Our Defense needs much more building. The threat of foreign expansionism is vast and real. We need a larger manufacturing base, not more debt.
* The debt collapse will begin with bond yields increasing to a certain limit (re. investors) and bond prices plummeting. Money doesn’t grow on trees.
* A vicious cycle would follow (rapidly increasing interest rates and government layoffs all too late, falling stock markets, unemployment, further decreasing tax revenues,...repeat, repeat,...
Many have said that the debts can go up indefinitely without default or repudiations, but the world economy won’t bend to that wishful thinking, either.
On the “scandal,” there’s no scandal. Kavanaugh is innocent. Most people haven’t done so well with feminists and associated weirdos running the country and are fed up with it. And there’s more ingenuity along the bottom of society than effete, established folks realize. Handing technical jobs to foreign communist nations for 40 years didn’t end that. It’s genetic.
Confirm Kavanaugh, or see an historic *ss-kicking in the near future. What the establishment is trying to get away with in trying to control our judicial branch, and through it, other branches, is a very serious crime against the people of the United States.
Straighten-up, now.
"Straighten-up, now" was *not* intended to be directed at you, either, by the way. But have a look at this map.
Imagine some truly extreme economic hardships arriving along with the political and social trends we're seeing.
Now look at the red parts of the map, but only where more arable land exists (*not* west of the middle of Kansas, see a satellite map photo in color). Consider some of the differences in demographics involved, including resources, skills, technical education, etc. I'm not going to go further with details about what could happen here. But if you have some particular kind of military experience and much experience with people and work away from sterile, scenic parts of the U.S.A. and overly built-up areas, maybe you'll see.
With "technical," by the way, I'm not referring to the use of smart phones and the like.