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Originally Posted by castlebravo92
As far as outrunning the bear, you don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the slowest guy. Using the Pareto principle, maybe 20% of an area under New American control are true believers, but if they are present, seem to be getting civilization working again to a degree, a lot of people are going to glom on.
Additionally, I imagine things in a lot of post-collapse areas would take on "prison-rules" aspects, so a lot of people not naturally draw to a New America ideology pre-war might find themselves having to "clique up" just to survive.
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Yeah, that's exactly how ISIS/ISIL gained control of big chunks of Iraq. In the early days of the "Caliphate", a lot of people who found themselves living within its borders were like, "these guys are better than the Iraqi state gov't"- until they weren't. When the gov't doesn't do jack sh*t for you, except for giving you a hard time, and then a new sheriff comes along and cleans things up (gets the power back on, schools reopened, restores a semblance of law and order), they're going to win a lot of hearts and minds. Eventually, though, when that new sheriff's true colors come out, a lot of those same people are going to have serious buyer's remorse. That was largely the case in Iraq.
I reckon this is precisely what one would see with New America c.2000.
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