I agree with you.
The FReeper historians can correct me, (and if I’m wrong I hope they do) but I don’t believe this has been attempted on a population armed to the teeth.
On paper, I can see how the C/P crowd believes this would work. But in a practical sense, it never can.
It’s my opinion that by the time such a scenario comes to be, it will be a hyperinflation event, which is not here yet.
But, look around your own circle of neighbors, friends, etc. Prolly half are living paycheck to paycheck. Some due to income reduction, some out of sheer ignorance and stupidity. Those cats are the ones still buying and buying for no discernable reason.
The people who are living on gov’t checks (whether handouts or earned pensions) are the most vulnerable, as they see the gravy train as neverending. Hyperinflation will render their checks useless. This will be the ultimate Darwin test.
People who are starving, freezing, dehydrated will only be able to riot for so long. They better not depend on the gov’t to feed them, either. That’s something I’ll post more about when I do more research. Just remember this: when TSHF in Sept ‘08, one of the pleas Hank Paulson made to Pelosi included “We won’t be able to feed the American people.” That was in an interview with an international newspaper and linked on FR more than a year ago. I believe he mentions it in his book, as well.
The people who will survive the C/P plot will the people who intended to survive all along. And the ones who planned for it.
There will be regional differences as well.
What the Communists don't understand -- unless they have plotted *far* deeper than anyone thought, say at the level of (dang it, can't find the link [*]) -- is that Americans will *fight back*.
[*] within the last month or two I read a harrowing account of the Communists in either Korea or Vietnam, where they temporarily overran a town and were driven out after three or four days: but in that short time they had killed thousands of people, almost all of whom were either known anti-Communists, or in a position to influence opinion against the Communists by having the ear of "everyman", such as taxi-drivers, etc. The Communists were able to do this since their stooges in the town had taken years to compile lists of targets and personal information about them.
Cheers!