The current economic malaise was planned; we all know that. A primary driver is the price of petroleum products. The price was rising well before Biden moved into the White House. Stopping the XL pipeline didn’t help, but it also didn’t hurt that much. It was supposed to carry just a small part of what has already been coming across the border in other pipelines. What set off the fuels inflation was a collection of decisions made long ago to stop building refineries in the US. We can get far more oil than we can refine. Sanctions against Russia simply made a bad decision worse.
So, this inflation is systemic and intentional. The ruling elite want us to die, but they want to insure we are also miserable along the way. This is going to get worse until it reaches a breaking point. That breaking point will be the states pulling away from the Union. Any other kind of uprising is impossible at this point. There’s no way to predict how this will play out. It’s for sure plenty of state governments are already discussing it, and negotiating how they might work together.
Most of the states’ leadership are reluctant to believe this is really happening. Those eager to make the move are currently in the minority in most state governments. The economic troubles are not enough by themselves; there has to be some kind of policy provocation that goes too far. Few states are in a position to survive alone, but they are the ones that will lead the way, but even then, they will be reluctant. For example, what will Oklahoma do with the massive and growing Tinker AFB? What about all those jobs? Look for states to strive mightily to first blunt federal overreach without a genuine secession. It won’t happen quickly.
On the other hand, given how much the national economy is shutting down, look for states to confront this issue on their own rather early. Out of sheer necessity, economic activity must localize. This will put the big corporations in a bind. Some of them have shown a nasty streak of wokism, and it predisposes them to attempt sanctions against states that make the first moves. In many cases it might not be much of a market loss, especially with Big Tech companies; so-called Red States aren’t their best customers anyway. But if more states take this path, it can get expensive for those corporations whose leadership thinks they are too big to fail. There’s always an entrepreneur eager to step into a market gap.
Given the rising fuel costs, I would expect agriculture to shift to the local market first. The business of the elites buying up farm property is aimed at shutting them down and forcing us to eat manufactured foods. But there are enough hard-headed farmers smart enough to realize the export market is going to die, and their future depends on cultivating a more local market. Instead of massive fields of single cash crops, they’ll start diversifying into multiple grocery crops. Raising food animals will change, too. Or, they can just shut down and sell, and states are already talking about how to keep out the elites trying to shut down agriculture.
What I’m getting at is that this economic downturn isn’t permanent. Some elements are long-term, but actual survival is not threatened. We will get to the other side of this eventually. Everything we know will change, but life itself will not be crushed. The globalist elites have miscalculated and some of their plans will fail. Not all of them, of course. America is dead; they’ve already won that battle. But seizing global control is simply not going to happen. Their neoliberal “rules based order” is their grand vision and the basis for constant scolding of those who don’t embrace their plans. But it turns out that the majority of the human race is against them, and will not play along.
Of course, we still have to deal with some natural disasters. Earth is in upheaval for several reasons, not least because of the solar catastrophes headed our way. Still, we have a couple of decades for that, and there’s a lot of living we can do until then. I’m still walking the Radix Fidem path.
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