[–] EwokStomper 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Honestly I think we're gonna have to go full 1984 before anybody leads an uprising.
[–] SirSandvich 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's a virtual impossibility that the US government will go to war with its own people, no matter how high tensions rise. It would be very difficult for either side to win without downgrading the US to Somalia-status, and nobody wants that. Besides, corporations and crony capitalists can't survive without consumers, and it's kinda hard to sell things to dead people.
[–] Vhaine 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
No one cares. The cold hard truth is that the majority of people in this country and the world aren't really interested or capable of self determination. Given a choice, they'd willfully accept serfdom for a check. It doesn't even have to be a big check. Just enough to rent a shit hole, have a broken down car, and maybe afford a little distraction on the weekend. For large portions of the population, this is already reality. Their life is so full of distraction that nothing sinks in. We've replaced 'feudal lord' with the welfare state and even better is nobody calls you to war or burns you fields. Shit, you don't even have to have fields.
This continues until it won't. The second it doesn't the unwashed serfs need a new master and the cycle continues. When government can no longer meet it's obligations, change comes. The scary thing is just how many people will have to die before the reality sinks in.
I'm not worried about war in a total collapse situation. I'm worried about the complete and total breakdown of food system. The largest concentration of people unable to care for themselves in the most absolute basic way are in the major metropolitan areas. See New Orleans post Katrina. The same areas most vulnerable to all the nastiness you've ever rolled your eyes at in a disaster movie. The death toll would be catastrophic and that's without them even turning on themselves in a scarcity situation.
We have large populations of people who can't boil water...and don't even know why a person would need to. They've been cared for in the most fundamental of ways their entire lives. They aren't adults. They are 40 year old children watching Saturday morning cartoons. The realities of a place like Africa would be almost instantly fatal for them. It's for this reason, I'm convince the current political system will exist for exactly as long as it can provide food to the major metro areas.
[–] SaneGoatiSwear 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
[–] WildThingSammiT [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
R.I.P. Roddy.