edit: oops I thought I was linking to the article: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-shockwave-leads-to-collapse-in-ocean-container-bookings
edit: oops I thought I was linking to the article: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-shockwave-leads-to-collapse-in-ocean-container-bookings
I think it’s highly optimistic to expect that, if anything it’s going to be more like the collapse of the Soviet empire, with weird successor state nonsense, some civil war, guns and violent crime everywhere, and those already in power going on a free for all kill each other and loot everything spree.
I mean to say, for most Americans who are not news aware, the first signs will be that they simply can’t get their treats anymore.
Even then, many of the more rural Americans will only ever have that experience. There’s not going to be guns and tanks rolling through Westboro, Wisconsin.
On the plus side, it’ll be good circumstances to create new anarchist structures to pick up the pieces.
The problem is that existing power structures will try to transfer their power to the new system, and it isn’t that hard for them to do that. A new anarchist communistic structure will have to fight the CIA and the US military’s various fragments, if it goes as it did in the Warsaw Pact.
Perhaps we will see a more localized anarchist sub-system purely out of necessity.