As a nation, we’re going broke—in multiple senses. But what I call the Scarlett O’Hara Defense (“I’ll think about it tomorrow”) and psychologists call “normalcy bias” allows us to go about our semi-normal lives even when the country has no leader, is involved in two proxy wars, is staggering under a ballooning national debt that exceeds our gross domestic product, and is placidly enduring a…
