All the disease and sickness cannot just be excised like a tumor, it's too advanced, too widespread throughout the whole body, too deep in it's bones.
This isn't Stage 4 cancer, we've gone beyond that.
We're fuckin' Deadpool at this point: We ARE cancer.
Maybe one day, when the United States has lost hegemony and has balkanized, revolutions originating outside the imperial core can slowly inch their way into its corpse. I'm just sad I probably won't be around to see it. Even sadder the world might not be around to see it either depending on how badly climate change goes.
They sure weren't kidding when they said it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism!
Balkanization seems pretty unlikely. I could see some sort of ideological break up, where you've got two or more different states that each claim to be the legitimate successor to the US that have different ideologies, but that's historically been a pretty unstable situation without some form of massive military investment from outside powers.
It is very telling that so many nerds have developed fantasy scenarios about US balkanization.
Well, you never really know. If there was ever a collapse of the electrical grid or something shit would get crazy in the US real fast. It would probably turn into a militarized hellscape but possibly could be pockets of revolutionary activity