My grandma was born in 1892 and died at the ripe age of 99. I loved to talk to her about the old days, and yes I’m pretty old myself now. I would ask her questions about different things and she would put me in that era and I would live with her in that time. Some of the things that she would tell me seemed kinda stringent by today’s standards but it didn’t raise any red flags when she was telling me this 50 years ago. Some of her stories take on a different light looking through the prism of current events, and it gets me even more worried. She told me about the ration cards they would get for food and gas, they could only have so much sugar, flower, meat and gas a week and If you didn’t have a ration card you went without. They were farmers and they had to sell their stock or produce to the government, it still went to the local buyers but the buyers were controlled by the government and they set the quantity and prices. They couldn’t travel long distances like out of state unless it was authorized by “guess who” because that was deemed wasteful and frivolous. You know the strange thing about it was that it seemed as if everyone was willing to go along with it with not much push back from the people because everyone was in the same boat and everyone was going to do their part. I guess what I’m saying is, is all of the stuff that is being talked about and or going on has already been done to us before and that’s not the stuff that her parents told her about the civil war and what they had to go through in the beep south, that is on a whole different level the scary part is now the government is big and strong enough to do the same things it’s already done and make the people compliant by carrot or by stick. I think the carrot will be big to start but at some point the stick has to become prevalent to get the vast majority on board with the program.