Posted on 12/14/2016 6:15:42 PM PST by Kartographer
1.Economic Factors: This could take the form of an economic collapse and/or runaway inflation/devaluation of a nation’s currency, as well as chronic or acute unemployment, lowered manufacturing base accompanied by firings or closure of positions or plants.
2. Warfare: can lead to a country’s dissolution either by insurgency or occupation, followed by an attempt to resist (revolt) either against a foreign oppressor or a country that has (in the manner of the Hessians in the Revolutionary war) “invited in” an occupying army.
3. Religious/Theological: in the form either of persecution of a culture’s predominant religion or factions/schisms leading to confrontation of conflict between two different religious groups.
4. Government Oppression: in the form of excessive taxation, taxation with either no representation (as when an executive branch secures a ruling outside of actual legislative bodies or processes) or misrepresentation (a tax is declared for one thing and ends up being “sequestered” for another. Other forms of oppressive acts from a “legitimate” established government include martial law declarations or unlimited police power in the hands of the State.
5. Civil Unrest: due to any of the above factors, with the added problems of cultural or racial strife in the citizenry, with revolution as recourse, when the people suffer from the (genuine or perceived) blight of believing/knowing there is no legislative or demonstrative recourse in a peaceful vein. It can also parallel economic factors when the abolition of the middle class occurs with a great disparity of wealth between the rich and the poor.
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Ya think so, huh????
Install Hillary and watch the fun begin.
The EBIT card stops working..,
That AND post #4. Epic meltdown.
Kart! Are you back! Missed you buddy!
Welcome Back.
I think the election of Trump has pulled us back from the brink. An election of Hillary, then for sure TSHTF within a couple years. I think electing Trump has pushed the date farther out perhaps 4 or 5 years - 2020 is the next danger time. Gives us a little breathing space to prepare some more.
Include mass perma-unemployment by robotics.
If ~30-60% (I’ve seen estimates as high as 80% right here on FR) of jobs really go bye-bye due to automation you are almost certain going to have either an economic collapse as big-box stores customer base collapses or a socialist revolution. Even the ‘best’ alternative is a huge permanent underclass that cannot get any kind of meaningful employment.
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