I read “One Second After” as well. Good, if bleak, read. What the Senate did is deplorable, but again, it’s not surprising.
They know the threat of EMP. They also know that pretty much anything and everything that they would need is “protected.” If it all “went down” tomorrow, their families and entourages would he hearded to those secret locations, luxurious bunkers, closely guarded compounds, and they would have all the luxuries and amenities, and they would retain all the “power,” or at least the privileges which they have heretofore been afforded.
WE, on the other hand, the “little people” out in “flyover country,” would have nothing. we have little now, and if we lost it in an EMP attack, well, we would just have that much LESS with which to defy THEM — for they have authority over us, which is THEIR rightful place in the scheme of things. An EMP attack might just speed up the process by which WE would come to realize the need to give assent to this proper scheme of things. We, the people must finally come to realize our total and utter dependence upon they, the government, to live, to sustain ourselves, to enjoy our liberties — or at least the ones we can mutually agree it’s alright for us to have.
It’s no longer about protecting the people or preserving the Constitution with these people — it’s about promoting their own power. What happens to the people is secondary. If the people benefit in the meantime — Great! That’s good politics! If they suffer — that’s the price they pay for “us doing what has to be done.”
The “Political class” is quickly approaching the point of no return — and stupidity like this vote to leave We The People vulnerable to enemy attack is a textbook example of their arrogance and blindness....
You can’t have world goverment with the US being a superpower.
You can’t have a superpower if the economy and industrial capacity is strong.
Where does EMP fit in? Societal breakdown, very quickly. We are third world in very short time, and hardly anyone knowing how to live in third world conditions.
I’m not so sure all the elites would be safe. Think about it. They travel a lot, depend on others to take care of everything for them, I think they’re pretty darn vulnerable UNLESS they just happen to be in or near a designated, fully equipped shelter — as in equipped for MONTHS and MONTHS.