This article reads like so much propaganda. Probably every post-apocalyptic movie about the US shows it descending into warring right-wing militias, many ambiti

This article reads like so much propaganda. Probably every post-apocalyptic movie about the US shows it descending into warring right-wing militias, many ambitious enough to make a state. Many surround themselves with pseudo-patriotic reactionary Civil War and Christian imagery, and engage in all sorts of terror. If you look at worldwide terror, the US & UK are way in the lead in generating it. Wanna stop terrorism? Start there. And they have some vaguely democracy-flavored institutions, so most HN readers can have way more of an effect. (Would US citizens enjoy Chinese foreign policy hacks discussing a North America they ravaged like: "A functioning state that enjoyed a reasonable measure of local support and could keep the peace would be a sufficiently challenging objective for [Eastern] policy"?)