[Salman]

It's how Stalin brought his peasants into submission. Mao did the same on an even bigger scale. It really is part of the playbook. You will need the right political connections to get food.

And they will blame the farmers in order to crush them. That's also part of the playbook.

[Manuel OKelley]

yep, lotsa people who talk a big game will be ratting out their friends and neighbors for a box of food if things get dicey.

Willing to bet that half the older people in the US would turn full communist if their social security checks were cut off