I’m going to die a very scary, traumatic death and so are a lot of the people who are closest to my heart—we’re all homeless, and we’re all drug addicts, and I have the special bonus of being (sort of) trans as well. I’m already seeing the ratcheting up of hatred for homeless drug users—I’ll be shot in the head and kicked into a pit, and my only hope is that I’ll be one of the very first so I won’t have to live with the pain of worrying about anyone I care about.
So yeah, while I agree that America’s collapse would be a W for humankind overall, it’s hard to fucking see that silver lining when things are that bleak.
I just want the rest of what’s likely to be a very short life to be chill. I just want things to be normal.
If it’s any consolation I suspect a “collapse” will not be all that simple. The policies carried out from place to place will be incredibly different, what happens in the south east isn’t going to be the same policy carried out in Vermont for example. If balkanisation of the US occurred it would rapidly redraw into new power groups and each of those new regions would have different policy. Whichever one decides it wants to get rid of the homeless would also likely not shoot them but instead use hostile policy to make them migrate out of the region first.
With that said I think a collapse or balkanisation is the least likely outcome.