That&#x27;s what I fear.<p>As a nation, we have had it very good for a very long time. Economic growth is considered a given, there is a social safety net, and major conventional war is widely thought to be an impossibility. We would not fare well if there was a societal breakdown.<p>I would predict the military and national guard would step in to stop domestic unrest if the national societal fabric unravelled. But what we really need is to convene a new Constitutional Convention, which will never happen unless there is blood in the streets, at which point things will already be very far out of hand.<p>I&#x27;m actually convinced that this is already happening, and the first eruptions of populist anger (Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party) are being stamped out. For example, the National Guard was mobilized not long ago in Maryland to quell the population.