I don't believe it would become a mad max world.
More on the scale of Putin's Russia, or, god forbid, North Korea.
Definitely not the American dream Grandpa enjoyed.
I once worked with a Bosnia Muslim refugee who explained how people change through hardships.
He said in the beginning, it was a political event. But when people started suffering because of the war, politics becomes a distant memory.Nothing mattered but survival of yourself and your family.
It's a horrible thing to say, but universal suffering of all American people?
Would put what is truly important, into perspective.