Absolutely Some entertain the idea of an heavy armed america moving as a one nazi army storming whatever capitol shit, that's not going to happen, it's plain delusion, pueril, at this point. Last time a tenth (and I'm generous) of that happened, it backfired and it only reinforced the system in the end If shits fall at the soviet collapse level... It's different... But we aren't there yet and even then, look at what happened in russia back then; right away you got organized paramilitary groups/organized crime, taking their shares of society, you didn't get a grand popular uprising of whatever shit, people were busy trying to survive FIRST AND FOREMOST So yeah, absolutely, local level is the key, that's the foundation of the US, as in "united states", and it's not just true for the US. Ultimately, if shit become unbearable all over the west, it's pockets of "tribes" in a sense, that will manage to make it. There is no longer one monolithic people, whether in europe or in the US, it's an ethnic mess to begin with, it's balkanized