{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So what happens next?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164243787798/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: So what happens next?</div>\nI have no clue\n<p>\nThe reactionary energy and the task of Doing What Must Be Done against the left will fall to \u201cpatriot\u201d groups - Oath Keepers, 3%, etc. with an aesthetic and aims closer to Norman Rockwell than George Rockwell.\n</p><p>\nThey\u2019ve got police/military training, discipline, recognized hierarchy and capacity to scale; many are serving in these roles and their rise represents no obvious discontinuity. They\u2019re also well-articulated with elites of rural, resource-extraction, construction/development and supportive industries that are tied to the land and can\u2019t threaten to pull out on capital strike.\n</p><p>\n\u201cRural grandees and their local forces expand their role\u201d is exactly the reaction you\u2019d expect to \u201ccentral government falls into decline and fails to command loyalty\u201d. (Ethno-revivalism counters <em>foreign/imperial domination</em>)\n</p><p>\nSeriously, though, I have no clue. There\u2019s a <strong>LOT</strong> of ruin in a nation but it\u2019s a finite amount and I see nothing on the horizon to stanch the bleeding or refill the account, \u201cconstrict the polity and feed the newly-outsiders to the remaining insiders\u201d is a very real possibility in multiple directions </p>"}