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The food riots will be ugly. The communists need a catastrophic collapse and are in position to cause it.

The History Channel had a week of "disaster docu-dramas" on, a couple of months ago, I believe -- it was called "Armageddon Week" ... :-)

That was interesting because it showed people dying off in the big cities, and many congregating in the smaller communities for self-protection. But, it certainly wasn't what I would call "living" -- because even in the "safe" areas (those smaller areas where people congregated together and cooperated for protection), it was more like a dictatorship by those who controlled the smaller areas. It wasn't like "gangs" but was peaceable and controlled, but not free and like we live today.

If that happens, we won't have a Constitution any more (at least not one that anyone abides by, or pays attention to), and it will simply be the "rule of force" -- and everyone will simply do whatever they want, according to the force that they can apply ... and that's all it will be about ...

It will take a generation or two or more to ever become "civilized" again ...

I saw that History Channel special and thought it was probably a pretty accurate depiction of what society would look like after an Armageddon type event.

Tribalism would rule the day and forget about gold and silver, the person with the antibiotics would be king.

That was interesting because it showed people dying off in the big cities, and many congregating in the smaller communities for self-protection. But, it certainly wasn't what I would call "living" -- because even in the "safe" areas (those smaller areas where people congregated together and cooperated for protection), it was more like a dictatorship by those who controlled the smaller areas. It wasn't like "gangs" but was peaceable and controlled, but not free and like we live today.

Personally I don't buy that view. It just seemed to me that it was an urbanite view of surviving among a bunch of gun toting racist rednecks in the country.

While much of the constitution would be abandoned in the short term, I think voting would still play a major part of our lives. Hard decisions would have to be made and punishments would be stiff but I have faith in my neighbors to remain human.

I live in a tiny town with several other small towns inside of a ten mile radius. The largest of those only has some 1500 residents. I suspect that these towns would link into some kind of cooperation pretty quickly. I suspect a fair number of useful urbanites would be accepted into the fold and the heavy Christian influence would at least help some who we wouldn't accept in.

If that happens, we won't have a Constitution any more (at least not one that anyone abides by, or pays attention to), and it will simply be the "rule of force" -- and everyone will simply do whatever they want, according to the force that they can apply ... and that's all it will be about ...

You think we live under a Constitution these days? The Feds are lawless, corrupt, and out of control of the written Constitution.