Alas, I am beyond three-score years and know a fair amount of history. I concur with you.
Your second paragraph was a strike between the eyes. As one who has been dollar-cost-averaging his way into the metals market for years (mostly brass & lead), it is plain that the social/political inertia of the system we enjoy will carry it off the cliff. I will fight the Constitutionalist fight nonetheless.
Can you say Balkanization?
I do hope we have a chance to meet some day...(I have followed your posts).
Likewise. I will begin receiving Social Security payments in December, and if Martin Armstrong is right, I will cease receiving them -- and my pension payments -- next June. At that point, it's every man for himself.
...(mostly brass & lead)...
In the short run, that will suffice. But when things settle down to a new normal, gold and silver will be the new media of exchange. Gold holders will be the bankers of the new order. Silver holders will be the merchants. Once that new normal settles in, brass and lead will be for protection of your gold and silver -- or the theft of your neighbor's gold and silver should you be of such a mind.
I will fight the Constitutionalist fight nonetheless.
Should some form of the US survive, it will be under some new form of the Articles of Confederation. Does the word "articleist" exist?
I do hope we have a chance to meet some day...(I have followed your posts).
Thank you. I hope you have been following our FReeper Book Club on the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers. There is a lot to learn.