Blame. Entitlements are the third rail - politically, reining them in is going to be an enormous challenge. Other than climate change (for those who accept climate science), probably our most challenging and intractable issue.

Which is why the time afforded us by our creditworthiness is so crucial to our future. To our kids. The brinksmanship games, especially with raising our meaningless debt limits (a debt limit on a credit card prevents the incurrence of debt above the limit. It doesn’t permit the debtor to refuse to pay debts he incurred over limits), reduces our creditworthiness. To this point, only repubs have done that, and only when a dem is in the WH. They put no constraints on repubs in the WH.