PATRIMONIAL SURVIVAL CHECKLIST
How to Stay Alive, Unseen, and Sane in a System Governed by Loyalty, Not Law
There will be no announcement.
No sirens. No flags at half-mast. No president on TV saying, “As of today, your rights are conditional.”
That’s not how this happens.
Autocracy in America doesn’t come dressed like a movie villain.
It comes as a press secretary in heels, nodding through a lie while waving a Bible and smiling at the camera. It comes with jargon. With dashboards. With digital levers that quietly classify you as non-compliant.
And most people won’t fight it.
Not because they’re cowards—but because they have kids. Mortgages. Student loans. A calendar full of bullshit they didn’t choose. And no one ever taught them how to survive inside a system where the rules still technically exist, but only apply if you’re poor, powerless, or unlucky.
That’s what this is.
This guide is not a call to arms. It’s a call to stay calm.
To be strategic. Tactical. Invisible. Useful.
To make yourself harder to reach.
To understand what you’re living in—and adapt accordingly.