Let's see. Debit- and credit-card based consumer economy. A run on the banks would clean them out of their minimal cash reserves pretty quick. Devaluation of the paper dollars some people DO use. The increasingly chummy China-Russia-North Korea-Iran axis is disowning the dollar standard. Grocery stores AND PHARMACIES using the "just in time" model, because minimal inventories mean higher profits. And having too much nonperishable food or sinus medicine at home is a sign of the "domestic extremist" and possible federal felon. Governments moving to confiscate guns or restrict them, whether or not you're immediately affected by a declared "disaster." It could be anything from a bad storm to Chinese cyberattack to a contamination scare at one of the Big Agra monopoly factory farms that supply half the nation. The ingredients are there.
Let's see. Debit- and credit-card based consumer economy. A run on the banks would clean them out of their minimal cash reserves pretty quick. Devaluation of the paper dollars some people DO use. The increasingly chummy China-Russia-North Korea-Iran axis is disowning the dollar standard.
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Governments moving to confiscate guns or restrict them, whether or not you're immediately affected by a declared "disaster." It could be anything from a bad storm to Chinese cyberattack to a contamination scare at one of the Big Agra monopoly factory farms that supply half the nation.
The ingredients are there.
National Guard recruits are trained in riot control because they are governor controlled state militia until they are activated for Federal service.
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