ACH: Most Dystopic USA possible

Jonjo

Banned
Create the worst case scenario for the U.S as possible, it cannot include turning it into a nuke wasteland, no plagues or being taken over by a foreign power.. it has to be a dump right from the start or eventually turned into one at its starting. Current OTL USA borders must be kept.
 
-Depression lasts longer and criminals are not brought to heel
-World War II begins and ends with immediate price shocks after the war, economic instability runs rife
-Korean war lost amid US economic chaos
-Civil Rights takes off earlier shortly after failure in the Korean War causing social and economic backlash
-Civil Disobediance deteriorates into a series of Kent State-like incidents with resulting riots causing widespread destruction in Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and East St Louis
-Oil prices spike following Arab disagreement over US support of Israel and cause further economic deterioration as gas hits $3/gallon in early 1960s
-Massive unemployment and prostrate US lead to proxy wars around the world, US calls up draft with a tenth of those called not answering and the rest shuttled to half a dozen Vietnam equivalents
-US losing battle for Communism across the world slowly, Europe unites and steps in to take up the slack. Brain drain from US begins over the next 30-50 years as talent seeks better conditions elsewhere
-By 1985 the US GDP is at $3.4 trillion but falling at about 0.5% per year with rampant corruption. Average unemployment is about 16% after shuffling the numbers and starvation occurs quietly in many parts of the rural countryside and inner cities
-By 2000 the US is a third world equivalent united only by common language, currency, and iron grip of military/LEO control. Several secession movements are beginning to appear as faith in Washington is essentially non-existant. Illegal immigration to Mexico has become a rampant problem with Mexican officials shooting stragglers at the border
 
Happy countries are more or less similar to each other, but unhappy ones can vary wildly in their experiences.

There can be an 1984-ish dystopia, or an anti-1984-ish (total disorder with state authority unable to be formed.).

There can be an one-party state, or a place where competing political ideologies cut the throat of each other.

There can be a demographic nightmare like that of Russia and Germany, or a overcrowded nation like India, or a cuntry forced to practice one-child policy.

Et cetera, et cetera.
 
Nuclear war. A nuke hits New York, DC, and LA. The President escapes in time but Congress and the Supreme Court are obliterated. Society breaks down and local governments are formed. No one wants to interfere with the US (and at the same time, the USSR is facing similar problems). Eventually, a feudal warlord system arises. The other couple hundred nukes are fiercely guarded, used as threats, and scarcely, actually detonated.
 
How about the ACW doesn't occur as in OTL and slavery is allowed to exist until the 20th centuary. How might that affect america as a whole?
 
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