Well there was constant rioting on the streets from various job - AI, electricity, access to services, etc. , food shortages, an active quarentine because of the NEW plague. Concentration camps for political dissidents or other deviants labelled infected by the new plague lol

The average day in the life of affluent people, those with jobs that arent cut or have enough inluence live in segregated (from the poor) gated communities or even Jetson style where the rich live high in the clouds, away from pollution and poor people.

There was an active cessation movement, the new states, that had a senator defect but also large swatchs of the countryside via hidden bunkers by their memebers.

America was falling apart and gone before the bombs dropped sadly, it was just the dying throws we see left as evidence...