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Massive, Fallout style foreign paranoia and indoctrination over generations. Cultural insanity is possible (look at North Korea) but it takes a few generations of hammering it in. You could even get an America where people are as happy go lucky as they otherwise are, but also willing to kill themselves and drown their children at a moment's notice. The banality of atomic holocaust during the Cold War, where people should really have been looking with bug eyed horror every second for 40 years but didn't, is testament to that. It's possible but it will take some doing. No one wants to die, even if they're pointing the gun at their heads.
 
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