The first rule of tearing down a republic is "exploit a crisis." When there is no crisis, one must be deliberately created. This has been standard operating procedure for the Republican Party for the past two decades. They sabotage government, cite their own crimes as evidence that government doesn't work, and then run against their own record while blaming everyone else for it.

In 2000, they ignored the wealthiest economy and most stable geopolitical situation in human history and ran against Bill Clinton's boner instead, then proceeded to tear down the national interest in short order. America went from the best position it's ever been in to both economic and security crisis within a year of the GOP taking the White House (emphasis on taking, in the larcenous sense). What follows Republic Fall on 1/20/2017 will make that look like Churchillian statesmanship by comparison.

The Obama administration has created a vigorous, strong economy and a world where Americans are not dying in large numbers abroad or in terror attacks at home. In eight years, fewer of our citizens have died in war or in terrorist attacks each year than in a single average month of the Bush era. We can now expect a steady and rising crescendo of chaos and death as the FBI is turned exclusively into an organ for investigating the regime's political enemies and rounding up minorities.

That alone will be devastating to the economy, but far more than that, the regime will deliberately try to destroy the Obama economy as quickly as possible. They need their white racist supporters homeless and hungry soon enough to blame on their predecessors, and in large enough numbers to mobilize as terrorist paramilitaries. Having zero political mandate to do anything, they need to create one through a combination of deliberate crisis and unhinged alternate-universe propaganda. Such crises must always be underpinned by economic suffering - otherwise a regime's followers are unmotivated.

As such, wise citizens - especially those who intend to be effective in resistance - must take steps to guard their own resource viability under the Russofascist occupation. It's nothing fancy. In fact, it's somewhat obvious once it's stated, but it should be stated anyway:

• Exchange some fraction of your savings for diverse global reserve currencies and metals. Become comfortable with the process of these exchanges and familiar with local businesses that provide them. Janet Yellen has said she will remain in charge of the Fed for her entire term rather than stepping down, but that (and secondary damage to the entire world economy by the regime's actions) will merely blunt the damage to the dollar. Do not buy Russian currency even if it would be beneficial. "Ruck Fussia!"

• If you live in a reliable state, your drinking water is probably safe, but it's wise to build up reserves of drinking water and filter systems regardless.

• Canned food. The purpose of a deliberate economic crisis is for the would-be dictator to impose command economics and pretend to be a hero to those whose support they want while crushing the viability (or even survivability) of populations they want to marginalize. With resource interruptions and command economics, you can expect there would be periods where food is scarce or is suddenly all imported from China with no safety inspections.

So basically common-sense measures as long as you understand what's likely to happen. It may happen immediately or it may occur as a downward spiral, but I would say it's highly likely that serious economic problems and resource interruptions will be seen in some areas of the country within the first year. De facto monopolies will be granted by regime attacks on their competitors, leading to very high prices in some places; resource shortages will occur due to politically-motivated distributions; all sorts of market distortions will accumulate.

This is the nature of criminalized politics. Tyranny and chaos are not opposites - they go hand-in-hand.

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Freedom Forever

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This has been a communiqué from the Allied democratic resistance at This Is Not A Game.