“I am thinking that neighborhoods should ban together...”
Excellent idea (on paper), but this would only work in a small town rural setting, IMHO. Urban neighborhoods are often filled with opportunists that would take advantage of those with food & ‘useful things’. The cities will implode within 72 hours as already formed gangs will target those who prepared.
The best advice I can give is to get the hell out of the city and establish yourself in a small community before it’s too late.
You are 100% correct about folks welcoming a “dictator”. This has been the plan all along. Create enough confusion and fear and the weakened masses will cry out for someone to come in and restore control, no matter how oppressive i.e. Martial Law.
Welcome to the New World Order.
“The best advice I can give is to get the hell out of the city and establish yourself in a small community before it’s too late.”
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That is, by far, the best advice on this thread, but even that is becoming a problem. I did it in 1972, while I was still a single young buck of 32.
I bought a farm and moved to a small town of 500, 50 miles east of Memphis.
I did not know farming and did not have the equipment, but I rented out the cropland.
I joined the volunteer fire department of the small town two miles away, and often drove the truck.
I had more friends in six months then I ever had in the city.
I first had a mobile home, but soon built my own house with help from other guys in town.
Since I started a two-way radio and telephone business, and soon I was serving farmers, businesses, and local governments in 8 counties of two states.
Sadly, it would not be so easy or fun now.
The cotton gin is gone, the small local groceries are gone,
and the old 90+ year old merchant on the main street has long passed, and middle-east Muzies now own highway quick-stops most everywhere in the state, pushing out local guys, and cell-phones have replaced radio systems.
America is changing fast, and as one of my brothers says,
It is all “Gone With the Wind”.