I keep hearing about how the united states will collapse, and yet it never does. I don't believe it-for several reasons
First of all. The government is now nothing more that a babysitter of 300+ million people. Imagine a country collapse, with tons of weapons. millions of people will be killed, The government won't simply let that happen and I don't believe it wont. Keep in mind, If money was going to doom the economy it would have already done so back in 2008.
In times past, more barbaric practices were allowed to happen because that's what people were used to. So it wasn't shocking to rape/kill/pillage/whatever
In todays world, the only way I can see a total collapse of any big government is if some natural disaster like Yellowstone, or something from space completely annihilating everything, with a few stragllers left to rebuild. then a government would collapse