This part was especailly poignant.
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Now, collapse is a funny thing. Ultimately it is very personal, even though we tend to see it more as a process or societal event. For those who have already lost their job, their home or the secure structure that once defined their life, the collapse is already here. And those slowly bleeding out clearly see the collapse just around the corner.
This demoralizing 'reality' contrasts with those who still live within an insulated environment, often those who still receive massive infusions of government sourced money. For them, there has been no dramatic change in their reality. "What collapse?" they say. "I see nothing of the sort."
We find them living within the ever expanding Washington DC suburbs, the closest you can physically get to the government cash register. Or the many college towns still bursting with economic activity paid for mostly with government backed student loans. And at hundreds of hospitals, along with the cluster of doctors and specialists offices huddled around them, all fed by direct infusion of health insurance, welfare, Obamacare and Big Pharma payments. There are many other examples, but you get the picture.
People who claim some awareness of things not being right will point their finger at the so-called sheep who trudge along day after day unthinkingly supporting the slowly decaying systems. And most of us who point fingers are quick to declare we are not them. We understand the evils now. We know it is unsustainable.
“This demoralizing ‘reality’ contrasts with those who still live within an insulated environment, often those who still receive massive infusions of government sourced money. For them, there has been no dramatic change in their reality. “What collapse?” they say. “I see nothing of the sort.”
This is the Dem constituency; welfare and workfare recipients (”takers”) are certainly spared the collapse experienced by private sector workers and taxpayers (”makers”) - that is why Hillary is even in this race.
Two weeks before the 2008 election, I purchased, on a handshake, 12 acres of beautiful land with a brand new house on it. It is in south central KY. It was ultra secluded. The house was at the top of a knob, surrounded by 8 acres of hay. The perimeter is woods, and the knob is 80 feet above the valley below, where the road is. i.e. nobody knows we're here unless they turn off on a gravel road and go up a steep hill.
I moved there in Aug. of 2011. I call it the garden of Eden, but with more chiggers. And since I discovered permathrin, I don't care about the chiggers.
The reason I mention this all?
I predicted the 2008 collapse, and I knew where we were headed, and I expected McCain to win! I've been a doom and gloomer of a sort since I was in high school (graduated in 1972). But that is because even then I saw problems with inflation and living on debt. I couldn't articulate it at the time, but it just seemed wrong. And of course, decoupling from gold was a huge red flag for me.
But now, I feel as if I've gone back in time about 60 years in a lot of VERY good ways. I love the lifestyle here and what I can do with my property. I bought my neighbor's 20 acres, which includes another knob and two streams. And that othe knob also has a hay field on it. But it is where he kept and fed his cattle for decades. The ground is so rich it is ridiculous.
The point is, if I still lived in Seattle, I'd be beyond panic now. But here? The freedom, property taxes approaching zero, incredible climate and land on which we could survive if necessary is a huge stress reducer as we approach a collapse that will make 2008 look like a dress rehearsal. It's because the collapse that is coming is the culmination of a century of bad decisions by our leaders. Not being in or near a city is very comforting.
Of course, the most comforting part is that God is in control. He has a plan, and I've read it. I'm not the least bit worried - even if I did live in a city.
BTW, Here's the place. I've not uploaded for a year or so...
http://s409.photobucket.com/user/robbbb4/slideshow/Kentucky%20home
I’ve noticed, the last two years, that people are starting to act like dogs act just before an earthquake. People know. They’re not sure WHAT they know, but they can sense it.
Many states will simply divorce themselves from FedGov in a collapse. It’s called secession and the people of those states WILL demand it. Will that mean war? Maybe, maybe not.
Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, really established the Democrats as the party of envy and hate. He personally *hated* rich people, and he also hated his second vice president Martin Van Buren, who was a rich and cultured person.
Mark Twain much later described the typical Jacksonian Democrat in the character of “Pap” Finn, “father” of Huckleberry Finn. A vagrant, abusive drunkard, “Pap” has never had $50 in his pocket, and bitterly hates those who have, as having ‘stolen’ it from people like him, though he has never worked a day in his life.
He thinks his life would be improved if he could just hurt enough people who lead better lives than his. An idea that still resonates in that party.
In any event, Jackson decided to end his presidency with a bang, both in refusing to re-charter the Second Bank of America, which at the time acted much like the FED does today; and far worse, he issued the ‘Specie circular’, an executive order, requiring that all government land could only be bought with gold and silver. This instantly killed any number of bank issued currencies on which the economy depended.
This resulted in the worst Depression in US history, until the Great Depression. And having just left office, Jackson did not get the blame for it, which was instead dumped in the lap of his hated VP Martin Van Buren.
I mention all of this with respect to our current situation. For most of Obama’s time in office, the FED has been using chewing gum and duct tape to prevent a major economic catastrophe. And given the utter disdain and hatred the establishment has of Mr. Trump, I would not be surprised if, just before he entered office, they pulled the support members of the economy.
Their purpose in doing this both to prevent Trump from acting on anything other than the economy, to strip him of power, and to punish those who voted for him by ruining conservatism in the popular mind.
So much like president Hoover, who was stymied in his efforts to stave off the Great Depression by a Democrat congress, Trump and the Republican party will be vilified for the next 50 years, and the Democrats can do everything they want.
The photo depicts a barn with buttresses on the left side that seem to actually cause leaning to the right.
We have numerous old barns here with similar pole buttresses. I call it East Tennessee Gothic architecture. The buttresses are necessary because there is insufficient internal bracing
Anxiety fatigue is tough. When one sees the stack of sticks being removed one at a time and not knowing if the next one will bring the whole stack down - the stress is real.
There is darkness coming
This thread is BLEAK!
I agree with most I have read, but I just have to live well and get through each day happily while preparing for the collapse...
At 80 years old I do look at the problems with a different perspective. Smile, be happy, help other people and PREPARE like the devil is at your heels...SHE may be!
A TRUMP presidency might buy us more time!
The six highest income counties in the US are all around Washington, DC.
Almost all congressmen are millionaires when they are done with their 'public service' terms even if they begin their terms as paupers.
The idea that if a collapse happens, one will be free to live in the countryside living off the land and a root cellar is frankly, preposterous.
There’s never going to be a Mad Max chaos free for all.
Our fedgov is so big and so powerful any kind of social breakdown will be met with martial law and/or force.
In fact the Hillary’s of the world relish the day of a major collapse, then everyone will look to the government “to do something”.
Plays right into their hands.
So DON’T buy some land in KY, that will simply be confiscated by national guard for the common good.
Find a hole in the ground, stock it, and don’t tell anyone about it.
[ For those who have already lost their job, their home or the secure structure that once defined their life, the collapse is already here. ]
Hardly has truth ever been more grounded in the reality of this statement. A lot of people have no idea what’s going on. Yet this beast advances towards them. They laugh in disbelief: It could never happen to them; they’re too smart.