RE THE NEW AMERICAN AMISH STATE ON THE HORIZON

Without realizing it, the US has been moving toward a sort of pre-industrial 'Amish loose confederacy of states', by political default.

Most Americans have been unaware of the progress, of the trends in this terrible direction; until now, it is virtually a fait accompli.

The problem, for Americans, is that they are not that pre-industrial 'Amish' anymore, and even many non-Amish colonials, especially colonial town dwellers, weren't either.

They no longer know how to farm, do handicrafts, have old folkways, own farm land, make homespun, or tools, like the real Amish do.

Even armed with modern technology tools (an authentic Amish no no) they are more or less lost at sea.

They are techno-consumers, wondering where their next techno-byte is coming from.

This will be a shock, if and when 'producing' states pull the plug on the consumer products gravy train (ridiculous fake plastic objects, utensils, clothing, and toys, etc., made e.g. in China, Mexico, etc.), and they are back in the figural 1600s, but without the knowhow, skills, desire, background, or tools (even modern ones; we more or less offshored the machine tool industry) to go back to the land, just to live.