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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by iIuminaIi
You know, they said the same about Germany in 1932.....
It's funny how people assume the future without any knowledge of it.edit on 6-8-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by iIuminaIi
Why should I care about the US economy and all its problems when, in a single moment, one man with 20,000 soldiers could easily erase it, and set up his own economy?
Just to give you one example, lets say I am that general with 20,000 soldiers. The president and his cabinet was "mysteriously" shot and I've arrested congress under decree that their incompetence cannot be allowed at the moment.
In an instant, I've more or less gained control of the US military, as they always love it when they have more power. With some deals, I can gain the Mayor of New York City as an ally, and with him, most of the North east and West Coast. I set up peripheral generals to manage the South and South West, where civil unrest is most likely. For now, I tell Texas, Florida, and a few other states to be their own managers, and locally run things, it's too problematic to claim absolute authority right now. I take over the media, and tell the people of the US of the tragic death of their president, and tell them it is not a dictatorship. Local governors, for now, have absolute authority, and most swear allegiance to the "contingency council".
I order New York City and California's police force to be replaced with my soldiers, as a sign of friendship. I can rally the Occupy people and maybe even some Tea baggers for my brown shirts.
From here, all I do is run trials on a few corporate heads and buy out the judges. They can die mysteriously a few weeks later. I control the media, so no one can know. I slaughter a few bankers and corporate heads, and suddenly I have the friendship of 60%-75% of the country. I award large scale deals and special interests to the remainder corporations, and sell the slaughtered ones rather than take possession of them, in order to ensure that I am not a communist taking private property. From doing that, I now have the support of the wealthy and most of the US.
If there's any civil unrest, they now look bad because they are fighting someone who has just done great justice in the popular mindset.
By slaughtering the largest corporations and selling their properties to my corporations, I've set up an oligarchy and absolute economic authority under the guise of bureaucratic justice and democracy. All I have to do is scapegoat the Chinese, and I can start an Orwellian war build up, creating huge job networks and set ups for avoiding any economic problems. The economy is rich, because I say so. The dollar has value, because I say so. People are wealthy, because I say so. I can do these things, because I have total control now. Much like Hitler did.
The peons do what I say out of loyalty to the big man who was nice enough to slaughter the corporations trampling our rights. I don't have to violate the constitutional bill of rights at all. People do what I say and work for what I say, because I give them land and food, and they don't care as long as I have that. People have homes, food, and jobs, so the economy is essentially what I declare it to be. I loaf of bread is cheap, because I say so. If someone raises the price, I use my brown shirts to call them the 1% and demonize them into submission. No one has to die, because I have cultural control. Though a few will, I essentially control all the prices and productions. The false notion of freedom set up by the seemingly independent governors keeps people feeling comfortably safe and free. In reality, each governor is dependent on my government for something, in exchange for something. I give Texas water for their meat. I give Georgia Meat for their crops. I give California bread for their factories. I give Nevada water for their electricity.
I control everything. And a collapse is avoided.edit on 6-8-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)edit on 6-8-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Well allow me to kindly suggest you're full of it.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by iIuminaIi
That was how to avoid a collapse.
See you are assuming a collapse. So you cannot fathom any alternative.
I can fathom alternative Americas that can escape collapse.
...America can survive. The question is if I would be willing to live in that America. I am not so sure I would.
Collapse happens only when you loose your government and your states declare independence. That is why we say the Soviet Union collapsed, but Russia did not. Likewise, you can say NATO will collapse, you can even say the UN will collapse. the USA will not collapse. Civil Wars will occur, but a federal government will form out of it one way or another. Because all Americans, or at least a huge number of them, look to the constitution, speak English, and are united around this idea. The government can fall, but the people cannot. They are too united by their ways.
Maybe we'll go communist and slaughter the bankers in the streets. Or maybe will go Socialist and nationalize our production centers. Hell, maybe we'll even go confederate and have no more federal government. But no matter, the United States will be there. In one form or another. It may be total crap and an utter dictatorship, but it will exist. Because the people are too united against their government to be divided under it.
The hatred between democrat and republican is heated, but it only accounts for some 10% of the population. 75% of the population has hatred for the federal government in excess of hatred for each other tenfold. They would sooner shoot at the Fed than each other. And there are a large number of military men who would use this fact to organize a government around.edit on 6-8-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Oh yea, and the ability to post videos hardly validates your claims.edit on 6-8-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)