They seem to imagine they can create chaos and control it.

Only law enforcement rules chaos here.

People expect, as things fall apart, that there will be random zombie apocalypse people wandering aimlessly by, looking for something to eat.

It isn't likely to be like that.

Many servants will know where to find their master's storehouses, and their information will be valuable to organized bands of men.

Many angry people will avail themselves of the opportunity to hunt and kill people they hate, from local judges and politicians who they know to be corrupt, to federal bureaucrats who have screwed them over. You can see hints of this kind of rising violence with the people who bother Supreme Court justices in their homes.

Anyone with a famous name will have enemies, who will travel miles to find them.

Anywhere anything useful is known to be will be cracked open like a tin can by organized bands of men.

Like Trump, leaders won't be able to get control over their own departments.

Cops and soldiers will go rogue.

People determined to restore order will kill everyone who breaks a law in front of their faces.

Shop lifting could become fatal.

Good luck with your chaos.

It won't be as zombified as you imagine.

It will be intelligent, directed, vengeful, and brutal.

Cowboy violence.