Well, there is always the history of American exceptionalism wrt technology advances. Backyard arrays could readily be promulgated.
Oh, I thoroughly believe that America will make it through the dark period to come, but I by no means believe that we’ll be unscathed. The fact is that there is a group of people who thinks they have the right to rule everyone else. At some point it’s going to come down to a decision of whether or not that is true, and it’s going to be a costly debate.
The price the Eloi paid for their complacent “freedom” was to be dinner to the Morlocks.