why would anyone in government want to re-create these awful conditions, and why would anybody want to enthusiastically vote for such people? The answer: they simply don’t think like the rest of us.
Most North Americans and likely a plurality of Western Europeans have never experienced such conditions. Those who have or are close to those who have, might see the outcome, but have no path forward to affect it.
The ones inflicting it see what we fear as simple collateral damage. They use our fear to control the masses. Given their goals of domination, the risk is worth the outcome. And, of course, they do not see it as their own risk.
I’m fairly certain there hasn’t been a fair election anywhere in decades. Far fewer people actually voted for the Controllers or their minions. No different from social media bots.
If you are interested, I believe there is a cookbook online somewhere with recipes from the Yugoslav War. I have become interested in the recipes and food preservation techniques from the Caucasus region. They grow, forage, & preserve with battered old kettles and recycled glass jars over an outdoors wood fire. There is even an Azerbaijani recipe for preserving the inner seed heads of sweet peppers.....not something I ever thought of as edible. They also go through the process of cultivating some sort of grass just for the roots, which evidently are sweet. It’s presented as a desert.
Lots of videos, if reading is a problem.
A young woman who escaped North Korea tells of catching dragonflies and cooking them w/a butane lighter. Eating is vital and people seem to find a way. If not, they die.
Oh, well. If worst comes to worst, I have a nice, big front lawn. And I’m thinking of getting one of those books which would help me to distinguish edible wild things (berries, etc.) from the poisonous ones.