The main aftereffect of the 2016 election could well be found in the lines of Yeats' prophetic The Second Coming, where the Irish poet wrote:      Turning and turning in the widening gyre     The falcon cannot hear the falconer;     Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,     The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere     The ceremony of innocence is drowned;     The best lack all conviction, while the worst     Are full of passionate intensity. Will things in America fall apart? Will anarchy be loosed on the land? Can the center hold? There is a convergence of several trends that make it unwise to dismiss such questions as out of hand. Look at just two of them -- debt and the question of legitimacy.  The recognized federal government debt alone is $20 trillion. When state and municipal debt...(Read Full Article)