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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
It might turn to this over a period of time and we were very close to a catastrophic world event in 2008. Do you actually think a prison guard, jailer, Judge, prosecutor, or police will put their life at risk in hopes the system will pay them down the road?
Although Katrina was a secular disaster, 60% of the police walked off the job after the first 4 days and it took 10 days to organize the national guard. This will be a nationwide problem and the NG only numbers 500k and there is no way they can protect 310 million Americans.
Does this mean it's road warrior time and shit like that? - No, because people are generally good by nature, but when there is a lack of food, medication, or basic public service they turn to animals. Plus there is a certain segment of the society who want to see total chaos and will instigate score settling.
In short, it's not about the collapse of our financial system, but trust in our government or anyone that might spew the same rhetoric.
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I actually think many if not most people blindly trust in our government. We have a voter turnout rate of 40-50% that means at least half the people old enough to vote can't be bothered to get off their ass for a few hours every 4 years. Clearly some of them are just anti-government and see no use in voting, but many of them just don't care or are content.
Aside from a major catastrophic event like an asteroid or some polar shift, what do you see that could cause this chaos on a nationwide scale?