Only in the broadest sense is this true. History is full of retrograde movements, some of them quite abrupt. Die-offs of half of populations in a decade or less have happened over and over. Sometimes entire tribes and peoples just plain go extinct. (Seen any Mohicans lately?)
We may be winding up for a big one. To beat my tired drum again, just for one example, if anything causes the EBT system to go down hard, our cities will explode in under a week.
Just a blast from the sun could send us over that ledge.
I can just imagine the effects of a massive debit card failure all at once.
First off they won’t trust the news saying its temporary, maybe it will stay quiet for 24 hours but after that I truly think it will be riots over food, shoes, cellphones.
Now if I was head of a community I would announce that we have a facility chock full of emergency “free stuff” such as new Ipads, cellphones, designer shoes. Basically bling, but here is the kicker, its advertise to be exactly what it is, emergency free stuff for those that live off of trash.
And then when they swoop down on the warehouse and get inside we gas them unconscious and ship them out of town.
The riots won’t always be just food, its about getting something the poor doesnt have, something that better off folks have, the status symbol crap thats been pushed by the MSM.
A purely economic failure wouldn’t bring about EBTmageddon as Uncle Sam can keep on printing dollars till he’s blue in the face. But a communication failure could prove interesting. Martial law anybody?
And it wouldn’t be just blue EBT areas that could see severe SHTF, it could be nominal reds which are still more hand-to-mouth than is wise.