I agree that self-sufficiency and decentralisation are important, but it's not enough on it's own. Here in the UK, a key focus of the government is to impose more rigid control over the food supply. Control the food supply, and you control the people.
They required all privately-owned chickens to be registered (notionally so they could be culled in the event of a bird flu epidemic.... followed shortly after by a couple of stories in the news that isolated instances of bird flu had been found. They also changed the inheritance rules in a way which over a period of time will eliminate smaller farmers, forcing them to sell to compliant corporate agri-businesses in order to pay the tax on death. Some government think-tanks are now talking about preventing or controlling people growing fruit & vegetables in their gardens.
The English are terrible at revolutions (the last real one was 1645), but they forget that somewhere between a third and a half of the population are now first or second generation immigrants, mostly from countries with a far better history of overthrowing governments. I like the way the French farmers did it, blocking Paris up with tractors and re-decorating municipal buildings and police lines with the help of slurry spreaders 😁
!BBH
Indeed. There has to be a point where hard lines get drawn.
The people in government are also people who have to live like this. The people who must enforce the rules are also people who have to live like this.
Either that, or it will be their own family. You can't fight yourself and your own people.