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| Dec 18, 2017 at 6:54 | comment | added | Johnny | @Harper Well, that's the USA in general. Cults, insane political movements, drugs, poverty, starvation, favouring interpersonal violence as a career, random terrorism, yeah, the whole lot. But the vast majority of that is in the cities, people move to the country to get away from that stuff. I can see some farming communities becoming city states, isolationist and religious. But "warlords", in the sense of invasion with dreams of empire? That would be the domain of the remnants of street gangs, corporations, and law firms. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 4:04 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @jamesqf without their consent, probably not. But that might be where it begins. Aside from guns, they also have plenty of stock of pickup trucks, religion, and crazy. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 2:54 | comment | added | jamesqf | Could those warlords do that in the rural US, where a large fraction of the rural population is armed, and a good few have significant military/combat experience? | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 21:55 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |