Thought to ask this after a pointless and exhausting argument with liberals who are convinced that Trump being voted out proves that liberal democracy works and that Bernie and AOC are going to fix capitalism.
Surely as capitalism continues to decay and it becomes clear that the only possible futures are socialism or barbarism, there's going to come a point where nobody is going to believe that the Bidens and Pelosis are going to save us. I fully expect most liberals to embrace fascism when that time comes, but I've still gotta wonder... what's it going to take? What will be the tipping point?
As China looks inward and finances developing countries more, that's when we will see what exactly is the outcome stateside. Wages remain stagnant while rent goes up, but cheap commodities still flood the market. China has a burgeoning "middle class" that seeks higher quality products. If I'm not mistaken, the likes of Samsung have started relocating facilities to more "viable" places on the planet, since Chinese labor cannot be exploited as easily anymore. If China plays its cards correctly, it would reduce the areas these large firms can operate in, as this would come into direct conflict with Western hegemony. Of course these days megacorps are states unto themselves, so it makes for a tense situation.
Lot of what keeps the American public blinded is the continuation of the capitalist propaganda machine and these cheap commodities, plus a welfare state to just keep enough crumbs flowing. The US still remains the largest exploiter of third world resources, and even its most poor people benefit. That's why war is seemingly inevitable - capital requires cheap labor. It'll do anything to massacre or cannibalize whatever it needs to. Whether that's the labor force at home, or the labor force abroad.
Beyond that, climate change is coming for all of us. I don't really see any grand socialist revolution. That's one thing Marx seemingly hasn't been on point about, and even Lenin after him, with his own considerations and additions to socialist ideology, probably couldn't see how encompassing the neoliberal hegemony has become.