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"How did it work out for the well-prepared country folks in the Ukraine in the 1930s?"

"It might devolve to anarchy, but it also might lead to martial law. Then, the govt. will lead military units out to the countryside to TAKE your food by force."

"Think you can resist a company of soldiers sent to remove your “illegal hoard” of food?"

"Ask the Ukrainians how it worked out when the city folks were hungry and the govt decided to take the food from the farmers."

You're being a bad sailor, Travis. You know better than that. ;-) LOL!

Tell you what. I'll go one better. When you hear bagpipes,...

...run for your lives, folks! Game over! There's no way out! We're all going to die!

[This comment was for the sole purpose of sick humor. It does not reflect my perception of any current political situation.]

To be fair, buddy (sincerely), I'll answer the following more seriously but without compromising anything.

"How did it work out for the well-prepared country folks in the Ukraine in the 1930s?"

It was horrible. They didn't know what to do and were bereft of technological experiences to motivate them during the early 1930s. They were defenseless.

"It might devolve to anarchy, but it also might lead to martial law. Then, the govt. will lead military units out to the countryside to TAKE your food by force."

"Think you can resist a company of soldiers sent to remove your 'illegal hoard' of food?"

I doubt that we'll see a Stalin-esque scenario any time in the near future, but here goes. Yes. Many residents here and there around the country could do that and more. Thanks to our Bush presidents for that. And a whole company for taking a little garden and one or two head of livestock would be quite an expense. If things were that much out of hand nationwide, by that time, there wouldn't be much air support for such missions, not to mention morale and strength problems for assault elements.

And most rural residences aren't farms. During poor times, many of them would maintain small subsistence gardens. ...not worth so much expense. They could take big corporate-government feedlots and large fields, though. Ask us if we'd care much about that.

"Ask the Ukrainians how it worked out when the city folks were hungry and the govt decided to take the food from the farmers."

How would it work out for such assault groups to try to choose between extremely rough terrain and...extremely rough terrain as one of many kinds of obstacle during road trips for hundreds of miles? ...without air support? ...or negative air support? Our more combat-oriented Air Force folks are rather loyal to Americans and traditional these days, as are others who secure their stuff.

IMO, a Stalin-esque takeover wouldn't have a chance without taking the path of incrementalism for several decades. Even then, it could be bled dry and cut up from the inside as in the past.

We're Americans. Most of us are pretty spoiled, but with the economic likelihoods in front of us, we can learn morality and ingenuity again.