Collapse

Not Broken, Abandoned: Why America's Collapse Is No Accident, and No One’s Coming to Fix It

This isn’t failure, it’s abandonment. Trump, Vance, and DOGE aren’t trying to save America, they’re planning to survive its collapse. The poor and unheard have always known how to live without. We won’t carry them through this. This is your warning...and your call to build what comes next.

Morrigan Eidnes

Morrigan Eidnes

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Not Broken, Abandoned: Why America's Collapse Is No Accident, and No One’s Coming to Fix It

Stop Calling This a Government Failure

What’s happening isn’t dysfunction, it’s abandonment. The people in power today, Trump, Vance, and their DOGE allies, they aren’t failing to govern. They’ve decided the nation isn’t worth saving. Instead of preparing to prevent collapse, they’re preparing to endure it, they are convinced that when everything burns, they’ll inherit the ashes.

DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) is not a bureaucratic reform project. It is a scalpel wielded by ideologues who believe that government should not serve everyone, only those they deem "deserving." In their eyes, "real America" means white, conservative, Christian, and economically productive...by their definition. Women with minds of their own, who speak up, lead, or defy subservience, are seen as dangerous deviations from that order. Everyone else who is outside of their "good ol' boys" club, immigrants, the disabled, LGBTQIA+ people, the poor, communities of color, is either expendable, defined as "unamerican," or suspect.

Created in early 2025, DOGE was given sweeping authority to rewrite how the federal government functions. DOGE has already gutted agencies, canceled grants, and restructured contracts to serve this exclusionary vision. Programs that supported the elderly, low-income families, rural healthcare systems, urban housing projects, and educational equity were among the first to be dismantled. The communities most hurt by these restructurings are the ones with the least buffer: the marginalized, the underpaid, the chronically ill, and those historically excluded from power. They are also the actual majority, in terms of numbers.

This is not reform. It is erasure.

The System Was Never Built for This

America’s system was crafted for a small, loosely connected, largely agricultural country. Fast forward to now: a fractured nation of 330 million+, riven by cultural divides, hyper-connected by technology, and subject to global economic pressures no founder could have foreseen.

The machinery of government is overloaded and unresponsive. This is not because of a single party or scandal, but because it’s simply too old and inflexible to manage what the country has become. We should have modernized. Instead, we denied. And now, those in power are using that denial as fuel.

DOGE has accelerated this fracture, not solved it. Under the guise of "efficiency," it shut down the Federal Executive Institute, restructured the U.S. Digital Service, and canceled critical programs in education, healthcare, and housing—often with no replacement.

Collapse by Design, Not by Accident

This isn’t just a series of unfortunate mistakes, this is a deliberate strategy. The Trump/Vance administration and its DOGE team aren’t losing control; they are dismantling the system intentionally, betting that chaos will serve their interests.

They:

  • Slash federal programs, including funding cuts to public broadcasting and intensified pressure on dissenting media voices.
  • Apply direct and indirect pressure on cultural critics. The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a ratings leader, followed his on-air criticism of CBS parent company Paramount’s legal settlement with Trump. While officially explained as a budget decision, the timing and rationale raised deep concerns about censorship and political retribution masquerading as cost-cutting.
  • Purge public servants
  • Embed private loyalists inside key agencies
  • Consolidate power in the name of "efficiency"
  • Undermine trust in civic institutions

This isn’t reform. It’s strategic withdrawal. They expect to emerge at the top when the system falls. But their confidence is a mirage.

Why Their Bet Will Fail

They assume their wealth and power will shield them. But what they have isn't real. Paper wealth that isn’t liquid, isn’t spendable, and only exists as long as the digital and financial scaffolding holds. It’s code, not currency; illusion, not insulation, digital accounts, financial infrastructure, these rely on the very networks they’re tearing apart. When those systems vanish, so does their safety net:

  • No more liquid assets
  • No passive income
  • No exploited workforce to prop up their privilege

They’ll expect the people to keep producing, delivering, and suffering for their survival. Because that’s how it’s always been done.

But the poor, the marginalized, the unheard and unseen, the trampled, we are the ones who know how to live without. We’ve been doing it our whole lives.

When they call on us to protect their power, to keep their world turning, to maintain their illusion...will we?

Why should we?

Their wealth won’t feed us. Their authority won’t shelter us. Their order doesn't serve us.

In collapse, the exploited majority has no incentive to carry them. And when the banks fail, the grid falters, and the contracts vanish? The architects of abandonment will find they’ve built nothing they can live inside.

What Should We Do?

Stop waiting to be saved by a government that either actively wants to erase us or is too steeped in the "old ways" to see the building crumbling around them. Use what we know, what we've always known, to connect, communicate, and protect ourselves and each other.

Don't chase big, flashy change. It won't work. It will only create noise that hides the truth.

Focus on the small things that quietly build sustainable resilience:

  • Localized, community-driven infrastructure: Food, power, medicine rooted in place.
  • Mutual aid and support networks: People, not institutions, stepping up.
  • Regional autonomy that meets real needs: States and coalitions defying federal neglect.
  • “Collapse literacy”: Education that dispels comforting myths with practical knowledge.

This is the work of survival. This is the work of the future.

This Is Your Warning

The people at the top aren’t coming to fix this, and that is because they don’t want it fixed.

We’re not here to salvage their empire. We’re here to replace it.

And the sooner we start, the more we save.

-Further Reading-

On Government Reform, the Administrative State, and DOGE-like Policies

On Systemic Exclusion, Marginalization, and Policy Consequences

On Collapse, Community Resilience, and Mutual Aid

On Media, Censorship, and Political Pressure

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