Preparing for Life in Post Collapse America
As concerns about a government or economic collapse occupy your thoughts, it’s crucial to also consider how to adapt and thrive after the crisis passes. What will post-collapse America look like, and what steps can you take to prepare for this new reality?
The Changing Landscape of Post Collapse America
Large-scale economic and political shifts don't persist indefinitely. After such upheaval, there will inevitably be a void waiting to be filled. The critical question is, “What will it look like?” The future could lead to either greater freedom or increased restrictions on personal liberties.
However, instead of fixating on speculative political maneuvers, focus your energy on what you can control. Regardless of whether the outcome leads to more or less freedom, there are proactive steps you can take. Here are several strategies to consider for navigating your path through the aftermath.
Possible Futures: More Freedom
- Start a Business
- Learn a New Trade
- Invest in New Opportunities
- Rebuild Your Community
- Enjoy Your Retirement
Possible Futures: Less Freedom
- Start a Business (a viable option regardless of circumstances)
- Educate Others About Freedom
- Advocate for Government Change
- Consider Relocation**
While it may be tempting to dwell on the negative, it’s important to find purpose beyond mere survival. Major shifts throughout history often give rise to true leadership, and you may discover that you possess the qualities necessary to lead. Preparing for significant change already sets you apart as someone willing to take action.
Remarkably, leadership doesn't require charisma. For instance, consider the biblical figure Moses, who was noted to have a stutter (Exodus 4:10). Many leaders are ordinary people who muster the courage to do what’s right, regardless of the consequences. It doesn’t always have to be a monumental effort.
Change often emerges in small, seemingly inconsequential efforts. If we don't step up, others may do so for their own purposes—often detrimentally. When a crisis occurs, it creates a vacuum that individuals will seek to fill. This could lead to figures who favor less freedom seizing control, similar to how dictators historically rise to power amid chaos.
Take Adolf Hitler as an example; Germany was left devastated after World War I, suffering from hyperinflation that rendered their currency almost worthless. Many lost their lives' savings, possessions, and jobs. This meant German citizens were primed for new leadership, and tragically, they were led by someone who only sought power for self-serving reasons.
Yet history has also shown us alternative paths. During other tumultuous periods in the past, it was brave individuals who banded together to reclaim liberty and ensure that the future was forged with dignity and freedom. Names like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin reflect such courage. They were part of a small minority willing to stand up for their beliefs, even in the face of great danger.
Their commitment to freedom, often at great personal risk, plays a significant role in the freedoms we possess today—despite the encroachments we now experience from those in power. Additionally, many of these leaders relied on divine guidance during their fight for a better life.
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Because of the dedication these individuals showed, we can contemplate a collective future with optimism. What do you envision as our path in post-collapse America? Will it lead to opportunities brimming with freedom, or will it converge toward a future marked by oppression? Regardless of the answer, preparation and decisive action remain paramount.
Ultimately, it is our shared responsibility to ensure the narrative of post-collapse America is grounded in empowerment rather than tyranny. Take advantage of your freedom to prepare and plan for both yourself and your fellow countrymen. Your informed actions today can help shape a future characterized by liberty and hope.
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Jul 4, 2014, and has been updated for quality and relevancy.
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Actually, I’ve thought a lot about what might happen after. So much so that I wrote a novel – “After the Blackout” (it’s on Amazon).
Many fictional accounts have been written that paint a depressing future, but I wrote about people coming together to rebuild society.
It wasn’t easy. They struggled and they disagreed, but the result was a free-market economy and a peaceful society. The future doesn’t have to be as dismal as Hollywood portrays it!
Paul, that’s so cool! You are right that so many people tend to look only at the negative side of a collapse, but it can also be looked at like getting over an illness. The “illness” we have is too much government and too much debt (along with the Fed printing too many dollars) and it will be painful to fix, but we can come out of it better.
I fear all the corrupt & evil will need to be put to death first or nothing short of a second coming of The Lord will help us.
In the effort to be prepared for the coming chaos it is too easy to have no focus on the aftermath. The rebuilding / reclaiming stage.
It is at that time that the people will need to be unified in a greater way. That ideaology will have to give way to the original ideals that our founders based everything on in the first place.
The founders had a structure in place that allowed them to work closely with the people; every town, county had a Committee of Safety. That was the inital governance that the people relied on to keep everything running smoothly (as much as possible).
The modern politician ( note I did not say Statesman) is only concerned with power and his own well being and job. The future will be a time when these attitudes must be discounted from the reconstruction and rebuilding of the Republic. The statesman will have the well being, and Rights and Freedoms, of the people as his only concern and vision. That in itself will be what should be built upon.That is not to say that there wont be difficult decissions to make, unpopular ones, there will be.
Right now, people have to unify in their community to form the basis of what can become the future structure.They need to almost be a governance structure that can help organize the rebuilding after the chaos has stopped. Unity of purpose, with the Constitution as its guide should be the foundation for such, anything else can lead right back down the same road we have traveled to get where we are today.