If the plan involves reverting to the stone age, count me out. Not that Trump or his team would be that insane.

Pre-industrial humanity KNEW how to live in a pre-industrial world and had the infrastructure to make life possible in that time (horse-drawn plows, blacksmiths to shoe the horses, non-electric versions of every industry then existing, etc). Even in the actual Stone Age, people knew how to shape flint for spear tips and other tools; they knew how to build and maintain fires without matches, they knew how to hunt and gather, and so on. And still they had short lifespans (even in the 1850s in America, average lifespan was 49 or so. -- From something I read years ago, so no sauce on that one. Or this one, from another forgotten source: for most of human history, average lifespan was as little as nineteen years).

If the grid goes down long enough or destructively enough (EMP, for instance) that it can't be restarted -- a very real possibility -- the psychopaths working to kill most of us will have their work done for them. It won't so much be suicide culling the weak but violence and a lack of food and clean water and medical care and insulin and sanitation causing death almost everywhere.

Not happening. Or if it is, we're wasting our time on this board.