Well, that leaves it pretty open, but heres a quick rundown:<p>We found out about continuity of government during Iran contra, but were misled into thinking it went away. The people mostly responsible for it were the same neocons who manipulated GW Bush (eg: Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bremer) The best writing about this is from former diplomat Peter Dale Scott. I think it&#x27;s possible that CoG is in effect and the Constitution has been secretly superseded by secret law. (Originally designed for nuclear attack, it was later expanded to be overly broad so as to potentially apply to almost any &quot;national emergency&quot;. By the way, we have officially been in a state of &quot;national emergency&quot; since 2001, with renewal every year by all presidents since.<p>Beyond that, resource wars are incoming, which includes a reduction of the power of the petrodollar, which is the core reason behind expansion into the Middle East, Africa and the Russian border (Georgia 08, Ukraine).<p>Add to that the fact that since 2010 Citizens United, corruption of our electoral process is almost unilateral, that we are haemorrhaging jobs to overseas (which will increase once the TPP TTIP inevitably passes), and even if the horribly destructive so called &quot;free-trade&quot; systems don&#x27;t do it, we are on the verge of an automation age which will remove many jobs from the market, and the oligarchy are increasingly done extracting wealth from third world countries and have turned inward and are now eating their own people so to say.<p>With the surveillance engine already in place, the inevitable unrest will be put down harshly (for national security of course), and the internet will be balkanised and the real world model of law will be applied to the internet... you know, the one were everything is illegal and everyone commits at least three felonies a day, so then you can arbitrarily enforce the law in order to stifle dissent.<p>All three branches of the government are compromised, and the fourth estate is in the gutter, along with the education system.<p>So basically we are returning to some strange form of neo-fuedalism, but this time it will be high-tech and global.