With the news out of Washington these days, I don’t see how anybody could be accused of overreacting or of being unduly, of being too alarmed.
When the future looks increasingly bleak, chaotic and dangerous, many Americans start thinking of finding a refuge, a retreat; some place to live that will be safe amidst the coming chaos. This is such a time, as Obama and Congress go completely mad, a heedless, hog-wild, gargantuan orgy of spending that will squander us and our children’s patrimony and their children’s too, destroy our capitalist economy, devalue our currency, and result in hyperinflation; creating so much debt, so much government ownership and control that we will, henceforward, be not a Capitalist but a Socialist country, with a Marxist-type “command economy,” in which the government owns, controls or regulates practically everything, and will, or tries to, control most aspects of our lives too.
“Mandatory” public service, creation of a permanent welfare class of 50% (up from the current, incredible, 38%) of our citizens who do not pay any federal taxes, but, instead, will now be given “tax credits” i.e. welfare checks—the old “bread and circuses” bribe to the mob, and the creation of a myriad of new or expanded public service organizations, the Marxist agitator’s favorite, “peoples organizations,” that together will make up Obama’s proposed “Civilian National Security Force,” all point towards tyranny, too. And, meanwhile, denied and ignored, everywhere the Jihad advances.
Since this is truly a “global economy” these days, the destruction of our economy will lead to even greater destruction for many other economies that are linked to ours. Thus, I expect that foreign countries that seem problematic as refuges now will only have those problems intensified if we go down. One line of reasoning argues that countries that do not have an extremely high standard of living now would have the least height to fall from and might, therefore, have a less hard time of it.
Australia and New Zealand may be so far off the beaten track geographically and self-sufficient enough in terms of their economies that they may escape much of the disaster to come, Canada has its own problems, which I would expect will get much worse, considering how closely their economy is entwined with ours. Mexico is rapidly descending into violence, chaos and, likely, war, which will likely spill across our border. The Caribbean may be a possibility, but those small, mostly island nations cannot absorb tremendous numbers of refugees nor–absent tourism—do they have strong, productive economies. Europe is in a demographic death spiral and is fast becoming Eurabia, Central and South America have their own instabilities and problems with dictatorships, Japan is in decline, is an extraordinarily conservative and insular country and, I would imagine, would not be very welcoming to Americans trying to hunker down there. The rest of the countries of Asia are, I would think, not a good place to look for refuge either, and Africa is totally out of the question. And everywhere the Jihad advances.
Thus, staying here in America, but moving to more remote parts of the country and trying to, as much as possible, “get off the grid” and off the government’s radar screen, seems to me to be the best alternative; it has been done before. Back to the country and small towns, retreat to West Virginia, retreat to the heartland states, retreat to survivalist territory in Idaho and thereabouts, retreat to the Southwest, retreat deep into the Rockies, and get out of states, like California, that have the same disease as Washington.
The survival skills that enabled our ancestors in America’s past to live off the land and to be self sufficient, that body of extensive knowledge, skills and techniques and the toughness of mind, the mind set necessary to use them successfully, the ability to work incredibly hard at physical labor, are, I fear, in very short supply these days; that is a major problem, and a lot of people are going to die if we need to reacquire these skill and mindsets. Another major problem I foresee is that our widespread transportation infrastructure and today’s surveillance technology will make “getting off the grid,” finding a remote or safe enough place and, then, successfully hiding, much more difficult that it was in the past.
I am also seeing the first hints that some state governors are getting increasingly alarmed by the insanity at the federal level, and may start to make efforts to more or less disconnect from Washington and go it on their own; if things get really bad down the road, some form of de facto secession is not impossible.
