People are banal. American people are especially banal, because most have not experienced any want or lack for two generations. The result is such a horrific indictment on our culture - "President" Biden's popularity is still polling above 35%. The madness of this is beyond words.
When you add some economic suffering to the equation, suddenly his support on every issue will crater. The polls showing that 55% of Americans believe the election was stolen will shoot up to 75%. Support for global warming, CRT, everything will swing against the regime when snack time and nap time are disrupted for our hyper-pampered society.
Yea - it's going to suck. Lives will be ruined. I type this knowing that my livelihood will likely be disrupted severely. It is what it is - no economic hardship, no Great Awakening.
What kind of economic suffering are you betting on?
Hyperinflation seems like a mixed bag. It would fuck people on fixed incomes but most people are in debt up to their eyeballs and would benefit greatly if their incomes did eventually scale.
A massive deflationary event perhaps triggered by the most productive people going Galt over mandates, a die off from vaccines, or mass worldwide credit defaults would slaughter anyone with debt.
Or are you thinking of a more centrally planned starvation event like the Holodomor?
It won't take much more. My parents survived the 70's--massive hyper inflation, gas shortages with lines around the block, mass homelessness. Due to that, they raised us "poor". That isn't to say they didn't have the money--they just didn't spend the money. They were constantly anticipating for another Catastrophe that would put them under the poverty line, unable to provide. So, we ended up helping to take care of a half-acre garden, shuck corn, snap beans, get almost all of our clothes from the thrift store....they would even take us to the beach once a year for a 24/hr marathon fishing trip, make us clean fish for a day, and freeze it all--they'd have enough fish for the rest of the year. My dad would take one weekend a year and go buy peaches in the mountains and resell them, fix bikes on the side and sell them for extra money.....my mother took in alterations/sewing and made wedding cakes on the side.
We survived my parents extreme pinch penny insanity. Sure, it was embarrassing sometimes, but we survived. Now, I know how to pinch a penny until that bitch screams for mercy and begs to be put out of her misery. I will survive this.
And what happened after Peanut Billy and his beer swilling brother? The Regan years--Republicans pretty much took over the country. Conservatism reigned for generations. Even Clinton would now be considered a Conservative by the Liberals.
As much as I hate to say it, our suffering for the next 3 yrs might be our salvation in the end. The Dems have turned Everyone in the country against them--except for a few SJW, unhinged idiots on medication who aren't capable of reasonable thought anymore. We're going to suffer for a while. But when people begin to realize that the reason the shelves are empty is because we don't manufacture in the U.S anymore--the reason they've lost their jobs is because of Marxist mandates--the reason they can't let their kids go to the gym is because of "trans" rights--the reason they're labeled "domestic terrorists" is because they stood up for their kids--the reason our country went to hell....is all the fault of Progressive Democrat policies....
It might finally turn this shit-show around. Things had too get bad so we knew what was good.
We were just dirt poor. Ive worked since I was 8 years old. 52 years.
I'll work until I'm 100. I'm not poor anymore but I don't know how to not work.
By thenway. Just got an obit about my former neighbor. 57 years old. Vaxxed and 3 weeks later dead.
This was my husband and my childhood. It made us tough mother bleepers. It’s a generation X thing to grow up with this knowledge. It led us to not use credit cards and pay off our house rather than cashing out the equity. If we can make like 8k a year we can keep the lights on and taxes paid. Oh, and we still grow a garden and can at this point it’s healthier than store bought food. We fix our cars. They are older cars, we shop thrift and rummage. We actually have money to enjoy things like vacation and concerts without charging it.
I’m proud of my humble life but not too proud to say it’s all from God.
My father had a service station during the 70’s I helped him out by working the “pumps” during the oil embargo the whole gas shortage, hostage crisis, inflation Jimmy Admin, turned people rather quickly for change. Nothing compared to now, the first few years of Reagan were harsh interest rates were nuts so it wasn’t a rose garden either. We will have it tough for awhile. Now I don’t know I think there were smarter “Dems” then, this group of Libtards are brain dead.
I'm pretty sure that the way you described the 70's is what we're looking at here. Probably somewhat deeper than the 70's but not a lot. The emotional shock of going from the strongest economy is US history to something between the Great Depression and the 70s will red pill all slaves to convenience.
Oh, they would LOVE a slice of holodomor, but I have no doubt it will not get close to that. The bottom is only as deep as the American people allow things to descend until we reform our communities and start acting like Americans again.
Nah - I'm thinking something similar to post-Katrina New Orleans. Lots of crime, empty stores, beggers, homelessness, etc. I'm expecting pretty rough inflation. But nothing that goes far beyond extreme inconvenience.