Those types are going to be out in the streets burning the place down and demanding their freebies that they have gotten used to.
I don't totally disagree with you (except for the 'silly' part).
It's true that there's a certain contingent in this country that no amount of reality will get through to. They'll riot, loot, and burn, but in short order they're going to find out that the food bowl really is empty, and that there are no more confiscated stores with which to replenish it.
It's at that point, the light bulb comes on for those types. They're going to have some hard choices to make, and damn quick. They're going to suddenly find that without the large hand of government force to command it, their neighbors aren't so willing to allow them to steal and plunder their hard won resources.
Those who resort to violence and anarchy to feed off others anyway, will quickly meet a tragic end. The law of the jungle will prevail, and marauding parasites will be shot without prejudice. That will send a message to the less violent parasites that they'd better figure out how to earn a living, or starve.
Perhaps. It all depends on how many enablers they have. An organized mob is quite different from what we have seen before in the United States. We are getting a taste of it now with flash mobs. Very difficult to deal with.
Some of them will meet an untimely end, but many more others will simply overwhelm opposition. You've seen the pictures of the folks breaking glass and trampling others underfoot just at a Black Friday sale. Picture that as a daily event. Very unsettling.
My fear is that will be going on writ large. The law of the jungle will prevail, but not necessarily in the way we think it will.
We rugged individualists may just be overwhelmed. We won't know until it starts happening. With any luck, like-minded folks like the ones here will band together. That will be the only thing standing in the way of a determined mob.
I do not look forward to having to seriously consider dealing with that. Its a nice intellectual exercise for now and my hope is it remains simply a nice intellectual exercise and fails to become reality.
But Greece and even the UK are showing us that people don't take kindly to their goodies being taken away. The student riots in the UK over a simple tuition hike at their Universities are a serious harbinger of things to come here.
As a people, Americans are spoiled rotten, in many cases moreso than their European cousins who are taking to the streets and demolishing everything in their path.