… in a moment when Americans are still debating why the country is involved in global conflicts at all, the people closest to power appear positioned to profit from the weapons and technology used in them.
… in a moment when Americans are still debating why the country is involved in global conflicts at all, the people closest to power appear positioned to profit from the weapons and technology used in them.
If there are enough people behind it, all you need is a Non-Cooperation Movement.
The regime will just leave themselves.
Except that they learnt their lesson after the last time and divided people enough and indoctrinated enough of them to make this not happen this time.
If one just does not require to use currency for everyday life, they can do this very easily.
For this, you need to have small enough independent communities that can feed and tool themselves.
To prevent creation of independent small communities, multiple levels of separation and dependence are required…
Fossil fuel reliance cannot be eliminated yet, because that would enable people to power their appliances without connecting to state controlled grid. Only after every electrical convenience becomes cloud dependent (and remotely disable-able), can sovereign electricity generation be approved. To add to that, make sure that independent electricity generation setups are as complex as possible to reduce self-repairability.
Repairability of tools, in general, needs to be controllable. Letting that go, will greatly increase the long-term sustainability of non-cooperating small-communities and keep productive and a significant threat to the government.
Communication media need to be thoroughly controlled, specially for the kind that allows discrete communication (without disturbing all non-involved parties). For this purpose, a multi-level hindrance needs to be setup.
Destroy local workshops at all expense. Skilled labour has to be separated from their tools. The workforce can easily be given the illusion of owning their means of production with 0 threat as long as a distance barrier can be maintained from their place of eating and living. Also, keep them poor enough to be unable to afford even cheaper, lower technology tools for personal use.
Farmers need to be kept as far away from consumers of produce, as possible. This, on top of outlawing small home-farming, would make all major food usage, state-dependent, meaning that denying to cooperate with the government will ascertain starvation.
Control farm workability by first, destroying the sustainability of lower technology farming and then separating farming technology from the farmer, using aforementioned toll (control measures).
[Bonus: added after relevant research opened up feasibility] Make the very base of farming, dependent upon external powers. Use GMO crops to control farm input. This way even if the farmers become willing to use extremely low technology tools to farm, they will have nothing to grow.