Originally Posted by Oracle

Because you can't do both. You have to focus on economic prosperity and throw civil liberties under the bus. To further accomplish this, let us put all the black people back in to chains until our agriculture and cotton industries become competitively viable in the global market again, then we can start talking about not shooting them. I sincerely hope I do not need to explain the sarcasm in this paragraph.

Second, the worst that can happen because of the U.S. not paying back it's debts is the U.S. dollar tanking and causing a global depression because of it's status as a market standard currency causing a lot of people to suddenly lose a lot of wealth. There is no magic disappearance of civil liberties, we do not magically become assimilated in to China, the economy just crashes and everybody scrambles to not lose the shirt on their back. The only way you will magically lose your rights is if we were invaded, which will not happen, or you let somebody take them away from you, which is what you are advocating for disadvantaged groups. Which I have already replied to with sarcasm and snark because of the one dimensional approach you take to political action.