Dispatch From October 2029: The Debt Crisis That Destroyed America

The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match. The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality. America became a country of strangers, speaking the same language but inhabiting different worlds. It was often noted at the time that Americans had come to embrace strange and conspiratorial beliefs. In retrospect, our elected officials had embraced the most fantastical belief of all: that the United States government could indefinitely run astro