When a really big train goes off the tracks the consequences are catastrophe.
Really big trains carry so much freight that a single lost shipment so adversely effects so many processes that, even if and when the big train is replaced, the impact of that lost shipment creates a continuity gap that debases and diminishes the power and utility of the whole system the big train was supporting, and that diminution is permanent.
That's a best case.
If the big train is never replaced but instead, varying numbers of much smaller trains, trains with vague, irregular schedules, trains that go north, or south, or east or west for no apparent reason and only, obviously, by some momentary whim, the unavoidable loss implanted in the system by the big train going off the track is compounded by the smaller trains: 50% times 50% yields 25%: it doesn't take long to get to oblivion.
America, the big train, has gone off the track and crashed into the canyon far below and been engulfed in and destroyed by the resulting conflagration.
We have pissed away eighty years of worldwide prosperity and success.
And tailgate parties across America get slobbering drunk in celebration.
Sad end to a once great idea.
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