As we cannot see what the future holds for America, the historical record is the best we must go by. Numerous empires in the world have risen and fallen to ruin due to internal hubris, and my thought is that ours will be no different. All the signs point to decline, from moral decay in society and financial overstretch, to military misadventures overseas. Looting the treasury phase as Zman points out, is an apt description of what we are currently seeing. TPTB are more concerned with what happens thousands of miles away vs. what can be seen only a few states from our nation’s capital. How long can it continue? Another decade? A few weeks? It is hard to describe just how out of touch the ruling class is with the people they lord over. This alone might be a godsend as when the collapse finally happens (without a nuclear fireball, hopefully) there will still be pockets of sanity and quasi-civilization around the country. My current reading list includes a lot more historical instances of these periods; Weimar Germany, England, and France after ruling class collapse, and of course, the time of Reconstruction after the American Civil War. It will NOT be pleasant, nor easy during these times. Many first-hand accounts attest to this. But, I stay hopeful that a sort of rebirth can occur. We cannot be ruled by idiots forever.
Well, if it does come to anarchy, at least the sane are well armed and include millions of veterans who know how to organize and rebuild.
On the plus side, it will mean no closed season and no limits on criminals and other gut-sucking intestinal parasites.
It probably won’t be much worse than what we’ve got right now in some of the major cities. They’re pretty close to anarchy already.
Might be past time to start reading some of those “forgotten methods” books that talk about hunting, gardening, and preserving food, etc.
That’s true for sure. Camera Girl says green peppers are way too expensive at the supermarket so I’m growing them this year in the garden and that’s true for some other things too.