I don't think power outages really get them anything. Especially when everyone thinks it's reactionary groups doing it because of shit like drag shows...

Someone else pointed out that these kinds of situations are pretty unifying, and yeah they definitely are moreso than anything else in suburbanites' lives - because you take a large number of people and reduce them to the same conditions without electricity. Electricity is the most basic thing allowing specialization and all of the structures in society. Sure, it's tense when the power does go out, but you're actually bringing together people who'd usually never interact because they have no reason to when they can just stay in the electrified places that they normally would.