I agree with you, mostly. But that wasn't the idea of the thread. The idea had more to do with if the people were ready or not.
My own opinion is that the people almost always fall at the beginning of a military takeover. Why? Because they aren't ready for war. Then they see how serious things have become, and they make things right... the few that are left, that is.
My sentiments more or less as well.
Before Trump I was pretty much resigned to seeing the U.S. tip over the edge. Now I have some hope but see at least three problematic things and a pretty good possibility that at least one of them will prove out:
- Trump is a fraud.
- Trump will fail.
- Trump's goals are valid and will work, but mostly the negative sides of the various trade-offs.
Prior to Trump I figured that the people of the world would need to see and feel 'globalism' and 'technocracy' up close and personal before they were shaken awake. Both mean being governed in a totalitarian way by a small integer number (including 1) of entities operating in what is basically a corporate structure...even more blatantly than is currently the case. At that point there may (or may not) be a last opportunity to straighten things out depending, as you say, on who is left. My personal plan is to lay low in various ways and try to stick it out over the period of time required for such an opportunity to materialize. I would expect it to take a number of years and probably a culling event.
An alternative potentially available to me would be to re-enter the corporate world as a tech drone or technocrat and basically join up and hope that I am taken care of. I don't see the world being a worthwhile place under any implementation of global governance even for those with who have a functional role, so fuck that.