Step 1: baby formula shortage Step 2: school lunches Step 3: adults going to grocery stores realize nothing is left and what is available is expensive Step 4: everyone patience has run out. It's hot. Race riots will be instigated to pit us against each other. Step 5: gun violence occurs Step 6: government claims to have a solution for the problems they created. They will begin civilian disarmament for our protection. Step 7: ship food rations to people's doors, it's all poisonous but it will taste good at first and then quality will rapidly decline so people can see what socialism represents.

Other possibilities include using insect vectors to infect heirloom crops crushing any homesteading resistance and force all to rely on the system. Possibly their crops are already gmo to resist insect vectors to guarantee they are the only ones to provide for the vulgar and profane.