What do we do after it all burns down?

Metaphorically speaking I mean... I hope? Ehh, if it ends up being literal the question remains.

I'll back up a bit, I, like most of you who still have a soul, have been sitting here furious about the state of our government in general and regarding the concentration camps in particular. My go to complaint here is often "Where are the militias?" Those fuckers turned out in droves to allow a rancher to keep feeding cattle for free, surely the incarceration and effective torture without due process of thousands should also be inspiring them to combat government overreach right? But we all know they don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves so fuck it.

Then I got to thinking, why can't the rest of us do something? I don't mean calling congressmen or signing petitions, although I don't condemn those who do that. I mean this, what would the government do if a couple thousand people showed up at one of those camps and just... tore it down? They can't shoot everyone... yet. and arresting everyone would also be problematic just as a matter of practicality. It wouldn't even have to be explicitly violent, although violence would likely happen to one degree or another. Mass direct action could end the camps within weeks.

But then what? That is where I stumble, see it is one thing to mobilize people for a short term event, but it is quite another to get them to sign on to a long term project, and tearing down the camps would be a long term project, make no mistake. More would likely be built and that would be an issue, but what I really mean though is what do we do once we tear them down? What do we do with the thousands of people who we rescued? How do we reunite the families who were separated? The organization with the resources to properly care for these people is the government, they also have (some of) the records needed to reunite families, but we can't exactly ask it to do that now can we?

So what do we do? Crowdfund some sort of living arrangements? Arrange boarding for all the escapees? Get them out of the country ourselves? That seems like a lot of work, and something that would be a lot harder to drum up consistent energy for.

It isn't enough to burn it down, we also have to plan for after, and that is harder.

On a larger scale it is what we need to be thinking about when the rotting carcass of our democracy dies under the weight of unfettered capitalism. It's gonna burn too, it might need a push, but probably within our lifetimes the world is going to look remarkably different, and I am not just talking about where you can find oceanfront property.

Say the country collapses under its own mismanagement and America as we know it ends. There are good arguments to say that this would be a good thing for the world in general, but what then? Are we talking just a wholesale replacement of government with people who aren't greed elementals? Constitutional convention? Breaking up the union into a number of smaller countries? I am not saying any of these are bad ideas, but I am saying we need to figure out what we want and how to make it happen.

I am not trying to say that because we don't have the answers, we should stop fighting until we do. By all means burn the camps, eat the rich, etc, I'm on board and will be right there too. But if we the people don't figure out what we want to do afterwards, then that decision is going to be made by people who will look a lot like those we just got rid of.