""As things collapse, there will be no avoidance of violence. Some places will be safer than others, but no place will be truly safe."
I don't disagree, but should things collapse (one plausible outcome of many) I distinguish civil disorder, civil war, and insurgency.
"the Chinese will move in"
I suspect it will be easier for them to pay the Mexican cartels (and fifth column agents of other countries too) to fire things up.
I underline that said plausible collapse is but one of many possible outcomes, and avoiding this outcome is all the more reason to give it our all to "vote our way out of this" (witness e.g. today's post of JW's successes in PA and CO in cleaning up voter rolls-- a major variable in voter fraud).
Staying with the humor of the "non-binary" riff-- we can do more than one thing. We can and should work to win the elections. We can and should prepare in case the SHTF and we wind up in TEOTWAWKI-- but to bet everything on the latter and not bother with the former IMHO would be a huge error.
