What’s going to stop it? Short of a new world war, total economic collapse following government and corporate irresponsibility, man-made disasters, and greed in general – once they get rid of the controls, the checks and balances, and emasculate the agencies like SEC and laws that are supposed to limit corporate irresponsibility and enforce civil rights.

However, Mainland China is highly likely to fill that global power vacuum once the US collapses, and where I live I can still feel its heavy influence in terms of voluminous imports of cheap goods, and it’ll continue to loom larger over my people even long after I go out in this existence.