Precisely my concerns, and articulated far better. Even more, the approaches, although at 50k feet, can be very useful as part of a "strategic planning" vision statement, used to provide guidance to activists. Thank you so much!
A lot to chew on here, thanks. The difference in the fragility of democracy and fascism is that when democracy collapses its (more or less) replaced by fascism, but when fascism collapses, its replaced by some combination of strongmen in ungovernable tribal regions and an invading army. Either of those is gonna make fascism look not so bad to a lot of the locals.
Its a banal observation, but America enjoyed the mother of all free rides, aside from that unpleasantness between the states bit. We are not going to respond well to the coming depravations and hard choices that will dwarf any the nation has seen. Avoiding them is the core of the American myth, so there's going to be a ready audience for a kind of snake oil that will make the current batch look like a glass of orange juice. Your list is a best shot at mitigating the risk, but I think nothing eliminates it. The goal will be salvaging what we can, and those choices will be ugly and violent. If the rural exurbs that don't have water think they're being ignored now...
Precisely my concerns, and articulated far better. Even more, the approaches, although at 50k feet, can be very useful as part of a "strategic planning" vision statement, used to provide guidance to activists. Thank you so much!
A lot to chew on here, thanks. The difference in the fragility of democracy and fascism is that when democracy collapses its (more or less) replaced by fascism, but when fascism collapses, its replaced by some combination of strongmen in ungovernable tribal regions and an invading army. Either of those is gonna make fascism look not so bad to a lot of the locals.
Its a banal observation, but America enjoyed the mother of all free rides, aside from that unpleasantness between the states bit. We are not going to respond well to the coming depravations and hard choices that will dwarf any the nation has seen. Avoiding them is the core of the American myth, so there's going to be a ready audience for a kind of snake oil that will make the current batch look like a glass of orange juice. Your list is a best shot at mitigating the risk, but I think nothing eliminates it. The goal will be salvaging what we can, and those choices will be ugly and violent. If the rural exurbs that don't have water think they're being ignored now...