Re: "The economy is hanging on by a thread! "
Maybe yours is.
Mine was hung by the neck until dead.
Classic tactic of a Communist takeover:
1 - Using propaganda, lies, subterfuge, sabotage, and terrorism, tear down each and every institution of a society so that it is incapable of functioning on any level.
2 - Then, jump on a soapbox promising to save those who have faith in and obey "The New Order", simultaneously promising to remove from society all "counter-revolutionaries" and "reactionaries".
3 - Finally, use Terror to enforce the new Prison Police State, with an endless campaign of propaganda warning the population that "foreign spies", "saboteurs", "infiltrators", and "counter-revolutionaries" are everywhere and must be "reported to the authorities", "hunted down", and "eliminated", in order to have "peace and progress".