The Expensive Bread

America's chaos was like a bomb suddenly set alight, and the blast spread across the entire country, engulfing both the white and Black races.

Once the government's last shred of credibility was lost, America's chaos became unimaginable, and likewise impossible for any person or force to control.

With others fanning the flames, this was a heavy blow to a nation founded less than two hundred years ago—and an even heavier blow to a country whose Civil War had ended only decades earlier.

Although the end of the Civil War brought America decades of peace and stability, that did not mean America had become a powerful nation united as one.

After Black people were emancipated, their conflict with white people instead deepened, because they were no longer plantation slaves but American citizens seeking greater political rights.

The conflicts between America's eastern and western regions, and between its northern and southern states, were also irreconcilable—unless there was a president trusted by all Americans to coordinate between them.

But clearly, President Hoover no longer had the trust of the American people. This was also the fundamental reason America had fallen into extreme chaos.

After California announced that it would soon hold an independence referendum, the western states followed their big brother one after another and announced that they, too, would hold independence referendums.

This left Hoover Dam paralyzed before construction had even begun. After all, the dam was to be located in the western United States, and the western states were no longer obeying the United States Federal Government's directives.

With even his greatest achievement, Hoover Dam, unable to proceed smoothly, it could be said without the slightest politeness that President Hoover's political career no longer had any chance of a reversal.

Even worse, America's policy of not banning firearms accelerated the outbreak