I think you are guilty of wishful thinking.
It will depend on who is in charge. If they bomb us when Hillary is President, it will be the start of the culmination of Socialist USA, for she will order the GOVT to form work battalions to rebuild
camps to re-educate the masses
camps to run the farms because we will be on gas rationing so we will need migrant labor to reap the harvest in Mexifornia
laborers to sweep streets and sewers
instand national health care, forced upon us due to the emergency, to NEVER be revoked...
Some people might succumb to that but the vast silent majority of real Americans will not.
If God forbid shedevil ever gets elected, and that would be a worst case scenario, and she did nothing after a nuclear attack except go after us there would be a coup and responsible adults would take over the running of this country.
Like I said the liberal ideology would die a quick and hopefully painful death.
The msm has painted a picture of this country which is inaccurate and will have no bearing on what happens when our backs are really against the wall.