About food rationing. And fuel, of course. When rationing is imposed it may be suddenly. Warning the people that rationing may be coming will cause runs on the food supplies available in markets. Remember the Walmart fights over toilet paper during the Covid lockdown?
The lockdown was created to test Americans reactions and resolve, it served no other purpose than to see how far we can be pushed. Actual rationing will be different, there will be armed guards at the checkouts to deal with dissidents. Cheaters that get caught may well face retribution from the other customers before they have a chance to be safely arrested. Food rationing is serious business.
So once again, don’t expect advance warnings that rationing is coming. It’s far more likely that it will happen overnight. I expect we will be told to download some app on our smartphones (I don’t use one) that will have some comforting name like “Mandatory Emergency Temporary Food Assurance” or something equally stupid and misleading, and when we do, we will be automatically downloaded with our monthly ration quotas. People will rush to download the app once they realize they won’t be able to eat or buy gas unless they do.
Like “temporary” sales and property taxes, the temporary rationing system may turn out to be not only permanent but expanded to how often you can mow your lawn – an exaggeration but you get the point. When government gets control over you, they want to keep it. It’s Power, and politics is 100% about Power.
You’ve been warned.