ms are now predicting a recession in 2025 is likely.
There are unfortunately many ways an economic downturn could lead to a collapse, violence and widespread loss of law and order:
- Rising levels of unemployment lead to protests, more stealing/crime, and angry people lashing out
- Political protests and blaming Biden/Trump/Musk/Democrats/Republicans/Rich/Tech Execs, etc. can lead to both violent protests and criminals/gangs taking advantage of police being tied up with political protest control to start looting
- The rising popularity of CEO assassinations could escalate
- As we’ve seen with attacks on Tesla dealers, more crime and violence against Trump supporters may result
- Layoffs from AI are accelerating—yielding more people who are angry at lost jobs and ready to lash out at AI firms and tech billionaires
- Income inequality is huge and rising in the U.S. Combined with the hostility towards Musk and other tech billionaires, some fear that class warfare may result
- With much higher food prices, cuts in government social programs, more economic crime and protests that turn violent are likely
- There are at least a million known gang members in the U.S., possibly far more who are ready and eager to exploit political protests and violence to start looting
- Some of the thousands of Chinese agents in the U.S. could be directed by China to foment violence, carry out attacks under cover of “legitimate protests”
Any of the above factors (most likely several of them) can lead to small scale violence escalating out of control—especially with the power of social media, podcasters and disinformation in the news spreading fear. In 2011 the civilized United Kingdom experienced a collapse event that had no “trigger event” or cause; violence just start in London, and over the next several days spread to every major city.
According to one of the smartest persons alive, huge fund manager Ray Dalio, who made his fortune by correctly predicting future events, a civil war is likely in the United States because of our irreconcilable political divide. This divide is deepening, not healing; and a recession could be the gas toss that sets off civil war. Not a clash of states, but as a Collapse Survivor training exercise illustrated last year, political divisions within states that leads to conservative, rural areas revolting against laws and policies passed and pushed onto them by urban, liberal, Democratic party controlled state governments.
