Act 2 may be quite turbulent.

Consider the GOP wins the House, CA elects Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer, and then the House refuses to bail out CA.

Obama will be quite able to say “they are taking away your survival. They are taking away your pensions, they are taking away your services”. His goal is to not just polarize, but to convince the majority that the goodies they receive from the govt are worth their loss of freedom. When the GOP are the bad people undoing healthcare and pensions, they may find this fight was even more painful than they realized. Will they have the nerve to keep it up?

Will the US population continue to reject this outrageous spending when the cuts finally hit them right now, not just their grandchildren’s future? Obviously in CA, the answer has been no no no, and if they elect Jerry Brown, it’s proof that the majority would rather have the handout.

This will get ugly, and that’s the best outcome. The worst is that everyone folds instead of being portrayed as mean.