- Continuing escalation in prices for energy and food. This will reach a breaking point in the next year.
- Riots breaking out in major cities perhaps as early as this summer.
- Political gridlock relative to the budget and other fiscal matters.
- States edging close to bankruptcy.
- Continued slow motion collapse of the dollar and decrease in average American's purchasing power.
- A disruption in energy supplies causing panic and hording.
- Accelerating slowdown in the economy and simultaneous inflation.
- At some point the economic breaking point is reached and there is a transition to social disruption - led almost certainly by the forces of the left - unions, minorities, etc.
- A reaction by a relatively small group of patriots which will be brutally put down by police and military forces.
- Imposition of elements of martial law in various localities.
- Passage of emergency measures at the local,state and federal level.
- Shortages causing military-controlled rationing.
- Complete collapse of the dollar.
- Increasing repression - wide scale arrests and detentions.
- Confiscation of weapons under dire threat.
- A police state takes shape.
- The end of the American republic.
Interesting You have given this some serious thought fortunately for all of us yours is only a rough outline of a very real possibility. but as the old saying goes “There is more than one way to skin a cat besides sticking its head in a boot jack & yanking on the tail”.
That’s all very plausible to me. That’s the America described in my new novel.