Why This Collapse Will Be Universal — Not Selective
❌ It’s not just about who’s “in the wrong group”
Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting the marginalized, the dissenters, the inconvenient.
But once the infrastructure of control is built, it doesn’t stay focused. It expands to:
- The inconveniently sick
- The inconveniently poor
- The inconveniently vocal
- The inconveniently visible
- The inconveniently successful
Eventually, even those who thought they were safe because they were quiet, compliant, or wealthy — are not.
Who Will Be Impacted (And How)
Group | Type of Impact | Why They’re Not Exempt |
Working-class families | Food inflation, job loss, lack of medical access | Already on edge; the safety net is gone |
Middle-class professionals | Frozen assets, housing market collapse, career targeting | Many work in sectors the regime doesn’t respect |
Wealthy / business owners | Capital controls, nationalizations, “loyalty taxes” | Regimes need scapegoats and money |
Quiet moderates | Digital surveillance, forced compliance, eventual conscription | Silence isn’t invisibility anymore |
People with chronic illness / disability | Prescription unavailability, system abandonment | They’re seen as expensive, not useful |
Parents | School collapse, ideological indoctrination | Children become battlegrounds for power |
Queer people, people of color, immigrants | First wave of targeting, but already adapting | Yes, they’re hit first — but not only |
Why It’s Different Than Before
In prior waves of democratic erosion (like post-9/11 surveillance, or Reagan-era austerity), the damage was stratified.
People with enough money, whiteness, status, or location could mostly avoid it.
But what we’re seeing now is:
- Currency instability
- Digital totalitarianism
- Global capital flight
- Decline of institutions
- Mass environmental stress
These don’t respect class boundaries.
And this regime?
It doesn’t want peace. It wants compliance through chaos.
Which means no one gets to opt out by being quiet anymore.