I would also wish that it could be played out peaceably.
However, your scenario relies on time that I don't think we have.
Agreed. The dollar will be done and there will be no food on the table within the next ten years.
Again I challenge anyone to tell me how they could fix it even if I made them king with absolute (but not magical) powers today.
The point of no return is passed. Starvation and violent conflict in some form are assured and the ball is in our government's court.
Thay may either attempt a full police state before the dollar goes, or they can just abdicate power along with the dollar as it collapses.
If they can't pay anyone, they can't enforce anything. If they can't engender the required fear to keep the citizens in line, as the Soviets did and other despotic dictators do, then they will be ignored. And we are still armed, and angry. I am not fearful. I am content to die fighting for my liberty. The Second Amendment is our ace in the hole, as it was intended to be.
Attempting to disarm us starts a war. Attempting to force a police state upon us starts a war - and they are both wars fought on the home turf of people in their homes - by people willing to die. What are the people on the side of the govt fighting for? More citizen snacks? The right to enslave their fellow man and live off their produce as some sort of house slave? How inspiring. I am sure they will find lots of folks willing to risk dying to kill the very people they need for that to happen.
Or the politicians simply watch the whole thing disintegrate as people refuse to pay taxes, and the feral pack of of non-contributing dogs they bought and paid for with citizen snacks turns on them, riots and turns the cities into flaming cesspools of crime.
NOTHING CAN STOP THIS. It will be one or the other form of Chaos.
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
Like our forefathers, we will have to put our faith and trust in God, that he will not let Freedom perish from the earth, and fight for what we know is right, by all means available to whatever end that leads us.( and that includes political, perhaps a different group could change the degree of the disaster even if it cannot be avoided, my doubts aside. ) We know it is coming, so we do what we can to prepare. Become as self-sufficient as you can. Get ready to resist and fight - mentally and physically- for a peaceful solution is impossible.
Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
Famous Speeches: Aragorn at the Black GateRevolutions often do not turn out well, but we are unique in that we have the tradition spawned by the first revolution in history to not go tyrannical. The first in which the man in power - George Washington, Voluntarily stepped down and threw the ring of fire into the fires of Mount Doom. That set a precedent with those fighting for freedom, and any man who leads this fight and wins and who doesn't follow in Washington's lead will probably be turned on by his own men and quickly.
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