Except I and a lot of other people have to live here. We needed more time. The US will not issue collapse, but could continue on as an increasingly brown systolic hell scale that can still throw its weight around.

Europe is a different matter. Whether Germany for example wakes up, embraces things like AfD is completely independent from this.

This is really bad news. And yes, it could have been avoided if establishment Republicans were not such feckles, ineffectual twats.