Nope.

“Strong men” will do what they always do. Point to a minority group and once that group is eliminated or reduced to powerless, they will move on to the next group - and starving desperate people will believe it.

Humanity is stupid beyond saving. We will not survive the great filter.

Not gonna happen.

I have absolutely no faith in my fellow humans, especially my fellow Americans, to actually seize the means of production. We couldn’t even get people to consistently wear masks with a virus floating around and I’m not even talking about anti-maskers.

Now toss in the fact you have 40 percent of the populace who believes they are just temporarily displaced billionaires and votes with only the needs of the wealthy, and you have a situation that by the time any sort of action by the general public takes place, it’ll be too late.

I’d say flee, but I honestly don’t think it matters. Climate change will finish off whatever society we can hold on to, if by some miracle we do manage to survive.

In Illinois. I’ve switched to smoke shop cannabis. They even sell flower now - so much cheaper than “real” weed here. Where I lived we just finally opened a new dispensary, making the third one here. I’m hoping this will create a bit of a price war and lower some of the prices overall.