The Impeachment, Chinese Flu, lock down the entire world, Patriots stage peaceful protests and are condemned, Black felons resisting arrest and beating cops makes you a hero, The actual fake protests burn down every major U.S. city, Riots for no reason, a communist take over in Seattle, The SCOTUS turned upside-down, The Democrat nominee hiding in plain site, I cant buy syrup without being a racist now, Did I miss anything?
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Not even this. They'll shut off internet services as protest /raising awareness for [insert minority group here]. I'm honestly surprised, in hindsight, that they didn't do it on 'blackout Tuesday'.
Internet access is the dominant drug of America. Phones, televisions, computers, and more all hook into the same infrastructure, and keeping all those things working keeps all those making use of those devices happy. They can get all their socialization and communication while still being isolated and powerless.
If all our modern forms of communication got disabled, the first thing Americans would do is go out and congregate with likeminded sorts, and many of them will be unified in re-establishing the status quo. Whatever source is causing would be protested or destroyed.
This i why they would never willfully disable services and state they're disabling their services for reason X. They'd be putting their head on the chopping board along with the heads of whichever group they claimed they were doing it for.
Now, if they wanted to escalate into a full war with China, they could definitely disable communications and say China did it. Americans would overwhelmingly want to turn the PRC into a smoking crater, especially if those niceties were permanently stolen.