yeah but that’s in the second book
books.
Read the first three chapters of name of the wind, then try to stop.
You likely won’t see this on the coasts, where riots would definitely occur, but throughout the middle of the country all kinds of wild shit can happen and we’re so disconnected from each other at this point that it basically feels like it’s happening in another country.
The union is weak is how it’s being got away with is my take on it.
Whitey on the moon