I finally watched ‘Civil War’, and I loved the post-apocalypse America aesthetics, but what was hilariously unrealistic is that Americans would possess the internecine, genocidal hatred to actually engage in killing fields, mass graves, and executed heads of state.

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

it all depends upon what the triggering event is.  we tend to assume the event itself is related to civil strife, but it's more likely an exongeneous or loosely-related event disrupts the economy, which then displaces the economic interdependence that prevents the kinetics.

for example, anything that collapses the food supply chains for longer than 2-3 weeks would utterly destroy trust in non-local entities. similarly, a dollar failure and banking collapse, even briefly, opens the possibility that nasty power dynamics take over.