edit: oops I thought I was linking to the article: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-shockwave-leads-to-collapse-in-ocean-container-bookings
edit: oops I thought I was linking to the article: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-shockwave-leads-to-collapse-in-ocean-container-bookings
I read something that some people experienced the collapse of the Roman Empire as their local bridge going out and no one ever coming to fix it.
I think a lot of Americans are going to experience the collapse of the American empire as their favorite treats never getting to the store shelves.
Don’t American bridges fall down already? I guess the wait won’t be too long.
You’re thinking of London bridges. 🥁 (I’ll see myself out).
My town’s bridge is in need of repair, which was to start this year but is now delayed because federal funding for it was cut. We’ll see…
I think it’s highly optimistic to expect that, if anything it’s going to be more like the collapse of the Soviet empire, with weird successor state nonsense, some civil war, guns and violent crime everywhere, and those already in power going on a free for all kill each other and loot everything spree.
I mean to say, for most Americans who are not news aware, the first signs will be that they simply can’t get their treats anymore.
Even then, many of the more rural Americans will only ever have that experience. There’s not going to be guns and tanks rolling through Westboro, Wisconsin.
On the plus side, it’ll be good circumstances to create new anarchist structures to pick up the pieces.
The problem is that existing power structures will try to transfer their power to the new system, and it isn’t that hard for them to do that. A new anarchist communistic structure will have to fight the CIA and the US military’s various fragments, if it goes as it did in the Warsaw Pact.
Perhaps we will see a more localized anarchist sub-system purely out of necessity.
White power movments are literally waiting for this moment. The outliers are the accelerationists but there far far more that have been preparing for generations to exploit the power vacuum.
A local anarchist group is no match for an well armed generation based organization.
Why wouldn’t the anarchists be well armed too, especially if that’s an obvious necessity for your commune to survive? The only people in the US who refuse to touch a gun, even if their lives depend on it, are the centrist liberals.
How many well organized have decades of experience organizing? Right wing militias are organized and equipped.