Is it working? Give "Amish abuse" a search in google, limiting people's access to communication can also make it hard for them to get help or to realize that they have access to other options a few miles up the road.

Oh yeah? What Web sites are they hosting?

It works because they just outsorced things like defense or healthcare.

Is easy to brag about how you don't need technology when somewhere a team of extremely sophisticated machines are deployed pointing towards the sky to save the day in case that you would be bombed. An entirely independent Amish nation would be probably eaten by their neighbors or by the market in months.

And their life style proven to be very fragile acting against things like Covid. They suffer also still from occasional outbreaks of Measles and Polio that were eliminated in the rest of US by the use of vaccines. Living in a different century can seem idyllic, but has the price of dying younger.

Yeah I see a lot of people on the right whine about "home steaders".

Well I read Lucky Luke as a kid and guess who ended up saving the settlers every single time? The cavalry. Sent by the Feds in Washington.