Though some argued the reports of widespread food shortages across America were just conservative “fake news,” the District of Columbia’s Emergency Management and Homeland Security recently asked shoppers, “buy what you need and leave some for others,” acknowledging the empty shelves and supply problems.
The Wall Street Journal blames the shortages on the lack of workers out sick from Omicron, and of course, the Biden Administration insists it’s the Russians who are weaponizing food to starve the world. Regardless of the cause, the outcome is potentially catastrophic. Scholar Victor Davis Hanson says that what’s happening in the U.S. is analogous to the “system collapse” we saw in Greece and Venezuela. The term refers to a wealthy nation that can no longer buy or find once abundant resources to meet the expectations of its population.
The problem is exacerbated by government corruption, incompetence, and malicious intent, leading to rising crime rates, criminalizing political opposition, and other oppressive outcomes. By 2016, a relatively stable Greece became like a Third World country.