How to bring down a country in 20 easy steps:
(We are at step 5)
1. Split the people based on their personal values and not the collective values of the country
2. Accelerate that condition with divisive leadership
3. Insert an unavoidable, catastrophic condition into society that impacts everyone's lifestyle (such as a pandemic)
7. Keep mitigating the economic impact to the people with sustaining-capital (not investment capital) and do it using debt
8. Sustain the economic suppression so that the tax revenue is significantly reduced
9. Sustain the funding until the currency begins to be devalued by traders and inflation begins to accelerate
10. Re-purpose funding to domestic security efforts due to increasing civil unrest - which is supported by one division of the society
11. State governors, who have managed to mitigate the catastrophic condition, begin to act against the federal security efforts and encourage citizens to identify with the state and not the federal government
12. The state governments become more trusted relative to the federal government
state-groups
13. The federal government re-purposes its forces on compliant states with populations with similar values as the leadership
14. State governors establish boarder checks to mitigate the catastrophic condition in violation of the Constitution
15. Federal courts rule against the states
16. State governors with boarder checks ignore the Federal court
17. Like-minded state governors establish groups to pool resources and coordinate efforts
18. These new groups give themselves a name
19. Citizens of these new state-groups begin to use that name to differentiate themselves from those with opposing values
20. The federal government runs out of cash, with the currency now highly devalued, and cannot afford to enforce its influence over the groups of states
I agree with most of this. Except for the economic assessment in # 7, and 20.
You might want to do a deep dive into MMT (modern monetary theory).
The fed can not ever run of of money. Fed debt is almost meaningless.
Inflation is not caused by debt. But mostly by unemployment.
The lack of investment capital, in a major crisis, is a feature not a bug.
@corlin Agreed that the Fed will never "run out of cash", but it would be devalued once the debt-stability is compromised by the drop in tax revenues. Every one of these steps probably requires a cogent paragraph.
@jurban
A lot more than a paragraph.
Read up on MMT.
These and most other concerns have been addressed.
Remember, that at the Federal level, there is no “fund” or bank account that taxes get paid into. When you or any entity pay Federal tax, that money just disappears. It is removed from your bank account, and completely taken out of circulation.
Yes the IRS keeps track. But that money just ceases to exist.
@jurban General Gerasimovs stare intensifies .. tried to find a funny pic or one of him smiling .. but there are none .. savage af .. but he wrote the book on Russian Hybrid warfare .. most of the above seems to fit.
4. Accelerate the divisions of the people by associating their values to their reaction to the catastrophic condition (such as wearing a mask)
5. Sustain the conditions for an extended period by ensuring that the catastrophic condition is not fixed (such as opening up too early)
6. Create an environment where the economy is suppressed into a deep recession.